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The Kirkus Prize 2016 Nominee, Middle Grade
ALA Notable Books for Children Nominee–Summer 2016, Nonfiction Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2016, Middle-Grade
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YALSA 2017 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, Nonfiction Tablet Magazine Best Jewish Children’s Books of 2016, Chapter Books
2016 Cybils Finalist, Middle Grade and Young Adult Nonfiction
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2017 Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Honor, Older Children
We Will Not Be Silent: How the White Rose Student Resistance Movement Defied Adolf Hitler
For eight months in 1942–43, a group of University of Munich students, led by siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, sent Hitler’s government into a frenzy—by writing and distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. Source notes. Selected bibliography. Index. Black-and-white photographs and reproductions of historical documents.
Title alpha We Will Not Be Silent: How the White Rose Student Resistance Movement Defied Adolf Hitler
Level Nonfiction Middle Plus
Pages Count 112
Genre Nonfiction
Topics Weisse Rose (resistance group). Universita¨t Mu¨nchen riot, 1943. Anti-Nazi movement. Munich, Germany. College students. Political activity. Twentieth-century German history. Holocaust. World War II (1939-1945).
Lexile 630L
Trim Size 9 1/2" x 9 1/2"
JLG Span Spring
Language English
Rights type Print
Publication date 2016-05-02
JLG Release Date Jul 2016
Minimum grade 5
Maximum grade 8
Reading level Middle
Format Print
Nonfiction Middle Plus (Grades 5-8)
Nonfiction Middle Plus
Nonfiction Middle Plus (Grades 5-8)
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