NONFICTION: Hitler Youth
1.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. 2005. HITLER YOUTH. New York, NY: Scholastic Press.
ISBN 978-1-338-30984-3
2. PLOT SUMMARY
This book presents the experiences of young
people with facts through their stories. This makes it to where the reader can
connect with the people whose stories are represented. This book shows readers
how, through trial and tribulations, what some young people have to do to
survive in a time that was unimaginable. These people are often demonized, but
were they forced into a way of living to avoid a different life, potentially
the ending of their life?
3. CRITICAL
ANALYSIS
After the Table of Contents listing the Chapters and their titles, there
is a section that features information about the young people in this book. This
is a great way to learn more about the people in this book as I feel like when
reading you are always wondering more. With a book presenting information about
a group of people we find hard to relate to and don’t understand their experiences
and stance, this section is a nice touch. The real photographs in this book are
so intriguing. They show so much detail about what life was like and really
bring the reader into the Hitler Youth’s experiences. This book is laid out
fabulously for young adult readers. The spacing on each page is manageable with
breaks for photographs to process the material.
4. REVIEW EXCERPT(S)
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ALA Best Book for Young Adults Top Ten
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ALA Notable Children’s Book
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Booklist Editor’s Choice
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Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book
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Horn Book Fanfare
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IRA Notable Book for a Global Society
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Junior Library Guild selection
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Kirkus Editors’ Choice
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NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book
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Newbery Honor Book
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Orbis Pictus Honor
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Parent’s Gold Choice Award
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Pennsylvania Carolyn Field Award
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Publishers Weekly Best
Children’s Book of the Year
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School Library Journal Best
Book of the Year
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Sibert Honor Book
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Sydney Taylor Notable
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VOYA Nonfiction Honor
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YALSA Best Books for Young Adults
5. CONNECTIONS
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Students
could compare and contrast the experiences of Jewish children and Hitler youth
during this time.
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Students
could do a writer’s response: How would life be different if the Hitler Youth
did not join?
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Students
could do a writer’s response: Would you join Hitler Youth?
*Other books
about libraries Hitler Youth:
The Boy Who
Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti ISBN 9780739374085
(eBook)
Based on a
review by Barbara Jean Thompson
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