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No one knows if it''s a family curse, or just plain old bad luck, but it seems as if the Barnett males are prone to dropping dead on the day before they turn thirty-five. Luckily, Molly and Adams mom has a plan: a getaway to the familys low-stress, danger-free lakeside cottage. But even the best laid plans can go horribly wrong. First, Mom gets called into work and is forced to stay home. Then theres the fact that Mollys room has been turned into a storage space for her dead grandfathers creepy old desk and papers. Finally, theres the freak fall that leaves Molly and Adams dad with a badly twisted ankle. Everyone swears that the accident was Mollys faultthat she was screaming out for help as she swam in the lakebut she knows this isnt true. Things go from very bad to even worse when an odd nurse by the name of Reggie Crankshaft appears out of nowhere and offers his help. As Molly and Adam struggle to make sense of these strange events, and to keep their father safe, more questions than answers arise. What really happened down on the lake, and what was that strange white light that Molly saw just before her father fell? Who is Reggie Crankshaft and why is he so interested in their family? And whats up with the figure that both Molly and Adam see sitting at the old desk in Mollys rooma figure that bears a weird resemblance to their own dad? In The Proof That Ghosts Exist, the first installment of The Ghosthunters trilogy, Carol Matas and Perry Nodelman team up to deliver a rip-roaring ghost story complete with chills, thrills, mysteries, and more than a few laughs. Its a combination thats guaranteed to leave readers wanting more.

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

"After losing her mother as a young girl, twelve-year-old Mia is living in Berlin with her veterinarian father and beloved German shepherd, Max. Mia tries to focus on her hobbies, her studies and her trips to her grandparents'' farm where she cares for the animals she loves. But it''s 1935, and life has changed radically for Mia and her Jewish father over the last two years. Antisemitism is now official state policy. At school, Mia is vilified and treated cruelly by her teachers and fellow students. Outside of school, she witnesses violence against her friends and family. And then suddenly a girl from the Nazi Youth tries to take Max. From that moment on, life becomes more and more dangerous for Mia and her father--who is now being forced to help the Nazis train Hitler''s army of dogs. Mia and her best friend, Frieda, must come up with a plan to navigate this new reality. But could it cost Mia more than she realises?--Publisher.

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.

In 1815, after immigrating from Scotland to Canada, thirteen-year-old Isobel chronicles her family''s experiences as they adjust to their new home in Rupert''s Land, Manitoba, with the help of their Cree Indian neighbors and, especially, White Loon, their father''s new wife.

In 1815, after immigrating from Scotland to Canada, thirteen-year-old Isobel chronicles her family''s experiences as they adjust to their new home in Rupert''s Land, Manitoba, with the help of their Cree Indian neighbors and, especially, White Loon, their father''s new wife.

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...

Een Pools-joods meisje probeert tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Duitsland te overleven onder zeer moeilijke omstandigheden.

Octobre 1940. Anna doit fuir son pays, l''Allemagne, parce qu''elle est juive. La Gestapo oblige sa famille à prendre un train, avec des centaines d''autres Juifs, en direction d''un camp du sud de la France. Heureusement, Anna et ses camarades, grâce à un formidable réseau de solidarité, pourront quitter le camp pour être envoyés au Chambon-sur-Lignon, un village dont le nom restera à jamais associé au pasteur Trocmé et à son incroyable générosité. Mais il ne faut pas croire que parce qu''ils sont cachés, les enfants sont enfin en sécurité. L''ennemi les traque ! Au fil d''un récit aussi émouvant que palpitant, Carol Matas témoigne d''un passage trop souvent oublié de l''histoire de France, une France courbée sous le régime du gouvernement de Vichy.