Awards and HonorsParents’ Choice Awards, Nonfiction Gold, Spring 2016
The Kirkus Prize 2016 Nominee, Middle Grade
ALA Notable Books for Children Nominee–Summer 2016, Nonfiction Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2016, Middle-Grade
New York Public Library 2016 Best Books for Kids, Nonfiction
ALSC Notable Children’s Books 2017, Older Readers
CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2017, 6–8
The Nonfiction Detectives, 2016 Best Nonfiction Books for Children
2017 Capitol Choices, Ten to Fourteen
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
The Golden Kite Awards, 2017 Winner, Young Adult Nonfiction
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 Black-and-white photographs and reproductions of historical documents.
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