7 must-read war books like Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan

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Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story

By: Lila Perl , Marion Blumenthal Lazan

3.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The twentieth-anniversary edition of Marion Blumenthal Lazan's acclaimed Holocaust memoir features …

If you liked the war plot in Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Torn Thread

By: Anne Isaacs

4.10

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A searing Holocaust novel based on a true story. Twelve-year-old Eva and her sister have been force… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
  • holocaust
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2. The Hidden Girl: A True Story of the Holocaust

By: Lois Metzger , Lola Rein Kaufman

4.04

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

When her mother is killed by the Gestapo, a Jewish girl named Lola is sent into hiding. At first, L… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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3. In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

By: Jennifer Armstrong , Irene Gut Opdyke

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

"You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of th… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"In my heart, I was seeing them dead. But on my face, I was an open invitation. If you are only a girl, this is how you destroy your enemies."

-Jennifer Armstrong, In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

"In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ambitions than mere romance."

-Jennifer Armstrong, In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

"If we were stopped and questioned, I always smiled at the officers, and they always smiled back. In my heart, I was seeing them dead. But on my face, I was an open invitation. If you are only a girl,…"

-Jennifer Armstrong, In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

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4. Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust

By: Allan Zullo

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Gripping and inspiring, these true stories of bravery, terror, and hope chronicle nine different ch… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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5. I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor

By: Laura Hillman

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Hardcover

"HANNELORE, YOUR PAPA IS DEAD." In the spring of 1942 Hannelore received a letter from Mama at her … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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6. Someone Named Eva

By: Joan M. Wolf

3.60

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

In 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken from her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, along with other … read more

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  • world war ii
  • holocaust
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7. Thanks to My Mother

By: James Skofield , Schoschana Rabinovici

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Susie Weksler was only eight when Hitler's forces invaded her Lithuanian city of Vilnius. Over the … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust

8. I Have Lived a Thousand Years

By: None

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

What is death all about? What is life all about? So wonders thirteen-year-old- Elli Friedmann, just… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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9. Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story

By: Lila Perl , Marion Blumenthal Lazan

3.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The twentieth-anniversary edition of Marion Blumenthal Lazan's acclaimed Holocaust memoir features … read more

Similar categories in Lila Perl's Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story book and Lila Perl's Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust

10. Hello, America: A Refugee's Journey from Auschwitz to the New World

By: None

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Having withstood the horrors of Auschwitz and made it out alive, eighteen-year-old Elli is more tha… read more

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11. Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz

By: Eva Mozes Kor , Lisa Rojany Buccieri

4.05

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Eva Mozes Kor was 10 years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older siste… read more

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12. The Devil's Arithmetic

By: Jane Yolen

3.00

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Hannah thinks tonight Passover Seder will be the same as always. But this year she will be mysterio… read more

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13. The Boy Who Dared

By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Newbery Honor Book author has written a powerful and gripping novel about a youth in Nazi Germany… read more

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14. One Step Ahead - A Mother of Seven Escaping Hitler's Claws: A True History - Jewish Women, Family Survival, Resistance and Defiance against the Nazi War Machine in World War II

By: Avraham Azrieli

3.78

Format: None pages,

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15. The Boy on the Wooden Box

By: Leon Leyson

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Even in the darkest of times--especiallyin the darkest of times--there is room for strength and bra… read more

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16. Behind the Bedroom Wall

By: Laura E. Williams

3.27

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In 1939, ten-year-old Korinna Rehme becomes a member of her local Jungmaedel, a Nazi youth group. S… read more

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17. Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz

By: Olga Lengyel

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time.… read more

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18. The Cage

By: Ruth Minsky Sender

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

As long as there is life, there is hope After Mama is taken away by the Nazis, Riva and her younger… read more

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19. The Last Boy in Auschwitz: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story (World War II True Story Book 1)

By: Moshe Bomberg

4.45

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

He will stay in Auschwitz to the bitter end if it means his brother might survive.Poland, 1940. Mos… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of The Girl From Terezin: A WW2 Holocaust Survival True Story by Hana Sternlicht

20. The Girl From Terezin: A WW2 Holocaust Survival True Story

By: Hana Sternlicht

4.05

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

“We were finally standing at the train station in Mauthausen. In front of us, there was a notorious… read more

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  • war
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21. The Stars Are Our Witness

By: Siobhan Curham

4.54

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Auschwitz, 1943. Adela stuffs small cloth pouches containing the stolen gunpowder into the folds of… read more

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8 best-selling history books like Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan

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4.04

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4.25

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Allan Zullo

4.23

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