New Releases by Carol Matas

Rebecca learned at a young age how important it is to be liked, when her family left Russia to settle in Hirsch, Saskatchewan, a mostly Jewish community. But Rebecca''s close-knit extended family returns from her triumph on-stage at an amateur night to find their home in flames. With everything they own destroyed, the family is devastated and penniless. They move to Winnipeg, where Rebecca''s father struggles to find work, and where all the family members try to adjust to life in a big city. Rebecca is sent to live with a non-Jewish family until her parents get settled. There, she learns the true meaning of bravery, loyalty, and friendship. As she struggles to re-unite her family, Rebecca bridges the distance between the old world and the new, between her family''s traditional immigrant values and the opportunities of the modern world.

Fuir. Sans relâche. Se terrer. Pour Anna, Klara, Rudi et tant d''autres enfants juifs dont les parents ont été déportés dans les camps de la mort, c''est à Chambon-sur-Lignon, dans les Cévennes, qu''ils ont trouvé refuge. Dans un collège en zone libre, tenu par la Croix-Rouge, ils survivent au jour le jour. Dans la longue nuit de l''Occupation, des hommes et des femmes de la région viennent au secours des persécutés, leur redonnant espoir. Mais bientôt, la France entière est sous la botte des Allemands et tout le pays devient un immense piège...

About to be married in Coren''s homeland of Andilla, Coren and Leonora discover that before the wedding can proceed they must find out why the Andillan people have lost their special powers and why Leonora is having nightmares about the evil Hevak.

The Telling chronicles one dramatic summer in the lives of three sisters - aged 12, 14 and 17 - as recounted by them in late night tell-alls. (1998)

After leading a group of Jewish refugees to Israel after World War II, sixteen-year-old Ruth joins the Haganah, the Jewish Army, and helps her people fight to keep the land granted to them by the United Nations.

After her father''s sudden death, fourteen-year-old Rose Rives finds that sixteenth-century France is a dangerous place for women, when some greedy, vindictive men charge her mother and others with being witches.

Follows the adventures of two royal teenaagers who possess extraordinary mental powers.

History comes alive in this accurate, moving novel, which explores betrayal, faith, and forgiveness as two Russian Jewish boys who are sworn enemies join forces to flee the Czar''s army.

Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.

After the Nazi occupation of Denmark forces his Jewish friends to flee the country, seventeen-year-old Jesper continues his work in the underground resistance movement.

This account of resistance fighter Jesper''s activities fighting the Nazis after Lisa escapes to Sweden finds him in a German prison, having been tortured and destined to die.

The city is Copenhagen and the year is 1940. Lisa is twelve years old, a bright, high-spirited girl looking forward to the fun and independance of being a teenager. Then Lisa and her family are awakened early one morning by the roar of warplanes-Hitler is invading Denmark.

In 1862, after Union forces expel Hannah''s family from Holly Springs, Mississippi, because they are Jews, Hannah reexamines her views regarding slavery and the war.