Books like Resistance by Jennifer A. Nielsen

A boy with broken memory wakes in a stone‑walled maze, where he meets other children who call it the Glade. When the first girl arrives, secrets about survival, cooperation, and the maze’s mystery begin to surface.

In a future Earth crowded with humans and androids, cyborg mechanic Cinder, a second‑class citizen, must uncover her hidden past to protect a planet threatened by plague and an alien threat, all while navigating a forbidden romance with Prince Kai.

Four orphaned girls in Carthya are chosen for a deadly contest to impersonate the king’s lost son, a scheme that could avert civil war.

In a world split by blood, a lowly Red named Mare Barrow discovers a hidden power that threatens the ruling Silver elite, forcing her into the palace as a fake princess while she secretly fuels a rebellion.

Once follows Felix, a young Jewish orphan newly escaped from a Polish orphanage, as he navigates the dangers of Nazi‑occupied Poland to rescue his parents and survive the Holocaust.

A 10‑year‑old boy named Max and his little sister live through the Nazi invasion of 1944 from a child’s perspective, illustrating survival, resistance, and the Holocaust’s impact on young Jewish families.

In a perpetually warring Republic, prodigious officer June and infamous outlaw Day cross paths when her brother's murder implicates him, forcing them to confront their pasts and a conspiracy that threatens the nation.

After becoming king, Jaron faces an assassination attempt, looming war rumors, and a conspiracy that threatens his throne. To protect Carthya, he must flee, questioning whether he can return or must sacrifice himself for his people.

In 1940s Poland, ten‑year‑old Felix and his friend Zelda escape a cattle car bound for Nazi death camps and struggle to survive on their own before finding shelter with Genia, a farm‑hand wary of Germans.

In a post‑apocalyptic enclave, 15‑year‑old Deuce hires out meat and meets the outsider Fade, uncovering unsettling truths about her community’s strict ways.

Anna, a teenage Jewish refugee, tells how she and other children were sheltered by the courageous residents of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, during the German occupation of World War II.

Simon, a young Polish Jew, is uprooted by the Nazis from his Warsaw home into a cramped ghetto, where his family is seized. Alone, he flees to the countryside and struggles to survive amid the horrors of the Holocaust.

During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, 17‑year‑old Hanneke secretly trades black market goods while grieving her boyfriend’s death and shielding her parents from the harsh reality of wartime life.

Two brothers flee occupied Paris to escape the Nazis, disguising themselves as Jews to reach the free zone during World War II. Their journey of ingenuity, danger, and secrecy becomes a true story of survival and resilience.

A father's memories of the harrowing World War II years reveal how a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, sheltered him and other Jewish children from the Nazis, a true story of courage and survival.

Describes how certain people, both Jews and Gentiles, were brave enough to stand up to the Nazis during the Holocaust despite the price they would pay if caught.

During German‑occupied Belgium, Claire Dussois protects refugees in her attic. A crash‑landed B‑17 adds a new secret—her most significant guest—and deepens the town’s underground resistance.

In this moving account of the life, work, and ethics of four Jewish women intellectuals in the world of the Holocaust, Rachel Feldhay Brenner explores the ways in which these women sought to maintain their faith in humanity while aware of intensifying destruction. She argues that through their written responses of autobiographical self-assertion Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, and Etty Hillesum resisted the Nazi terror in ways that defy its horrifying dehumanization. Personal identity crises engendered the intellectual-spiritual acts of autobiographical self-searching for each of these women. About to become a nun in 1933, Edith Stein embarked on her autobiography as a daughter of a Jewish family. Fleeing France and deportation in 1942, Simone Weil examined her inner struggle with faith and the Church in her "Spiritual Autobiography." Hiding for more than two years in the attic, Anne Frank poignantly confided in her diary about her efforts to become a better person. Having volunteered as a social worker in Westerbork, Etty Hillesum searched her soul for love in the reality of terror. In each case, autobiographical writing becomes an act of defiance that asserts humanity in a dehumanized/dehumanizing world. By focusing on the four women's accomplishments as intellectuals, writers, and thinkers, Brenner's account liberates them from other posthumous treatments that depict them as symbols of altruism, sanctity, and victimization. Her approach also elucidates the particular predicament of Western Jewish intellectuals who trusted the ideals of the Enlightenment and believed in human fellowship. While suffering the terror of physical annihilation decreed by the Final Solution, these women had to contend with their exclusion from the world that they considered theirs. On yet another level, this study of four extraordinary life stories contributes to a deeper understanding of the postwar development of ethical, theological, and feminist thought. In showing concern about a world that had ceased to care for them, Stein, Weil, Frank, and Hillesum demonstrated that the meaning of human existence consisted in the responsibility for the other, in the protection of the suffering God, in the primary value of relatedness through empathy. Arguing that their ethical tenets anticipated the thought of such postwar thinkers as Levinas, Fackenheim, Tillich, Arendt, and Nodding, Brenner proposes that the breakup of the humanist tradition of the Enlightenment in the Holocaust engendered the postwar exploration of humanist potential in self-givenness to the other.

Eleven‑year‑old Marianne escapes Nazi persecution as part of the Kindertransport, arriving in London in 1938 and later evacuated to Wales during World War II, where she confronts isolation yet ultimately finds resilience and hope.

A tense, sympathetic tale of Danish Jews and resistance fighters during Nazi occupation, following Julie and Niels as they navigate fear, hope, and rescue amid the peril of 1943 Copenhagen.