Describes in verse, accompanied by photographs, the many things hands can do

The Wonder of Hands (Monogram Book)

Children's Books

Baer, Edith

Science, Nature & How It Works

Atheneum

A girl's escape from Nazi Germany. The city Eva Bentheim once adored is no longer familiar. A swastika is emblazoned on the flag atop the City Hall. Teachers, family, and friends are beginning to disappear. Her father seems gone in a different way; he has become ill, fragile, and despondent as the Nazis gain power. When things get worse, Eva's mother desperately tries to obtain the proper papers for her family to leave the country. Then a horrible night of roundups occurs and Eva's father is taken away. A nocturnal search begins for someone who can help release him from the city jail. Eva's boyfriend, Arno, may have a way to save her father from deportation, but it soon becomes clear that their struggles have just begun. Exquisitely felt and written, Walk the Dark Streets resonates with the indomitability of the human spirit even as a loving family's attempts to stay together grow more and more hopeless.

Walk the Dark Streets

Literature & Fiction

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

"So good you have to read it twice." -- Joan Blos It is Germany in 1932, and Hitler is rising to power. This critical place and time in modern history is poignantly re-created through the observations of a young Jewish girl named Eva, who is caught up in the sense of dread shared by the adults around her. Edith Baer has written a novel distilled from memory, love, loss, and sorrow which depicts a girl's impressions of a nation beginning to destroy itself and an entire way of life. A Frost in the Night was nominated for the National Jewish Book Award and won the Arnold Gingrich Award for Literature when it was first published in 1980.

A Frost in the Night

Alfred.A. Knopf

Rhyming text points out the many uses of words and the different emotions and concepts they can convey.

Words Are Like Faces

Gundersheimer, Karen

Random House Childrens Books

Relates the experiences of a young Jewish girl growing up in a city in southern Germany during the period of Hitler's rise to power.

Pantheon Books

Eva Bentheim's world and life with her Jewish family in Germany has been wonderful and secure, but their world grows dark in the summer of 1932, on the eve of Hitler's rise to power

Teen & Young Adult

Historical Fiction

Knopf Books for Young Readers

Ideal for the adult learner considering a holiday in France, who has either learnt no French before or is conscious of having learnt 'the wrong kind'. The accompanying set of two cassettes give essential language practice.

French for Starters

Weber, Celia

Cambridge University Press

Ideal for the adult learner considering a holiday in France, who has either learnt no French before or is conscious of having learnt 'the wrong kind'. The content of the French for Starters Paperback is based on what a traveller would need to say when on holiday in France in predictable, and some amusingly unpredictable, situations. The first part deals with 'What you will need to say' and covers simple grammar points as they arise. The second part lets the learner loose on what he or she has learned in the first part, in a variety of practical situations. The accompanying cassettes provide lively examples and give short, memorable bursts of practice. A particularly attractive feature of the book are the cartoons by Celia Weber.

Education & Reference

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The Wonder of Hands (Monogram Book)

Walk the Dark Streets

A Frost in the Night

Walk the Dark Streets

Words Are Like Faces

A Frost in the Night

Words Are Like Faces

A Frost in the Night

French for Starters

French for Starters