Books like My real name is Hanna by Tara Lynn Masih

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

The Kite Runner follows an unlikely friendship between a privileged boy and the son of his father’s servant amid Afghanistan’s turbulent history, exploring betrayal, redemption, and the father‑son bond.

Sandra Cisneros’ celebrated coming‑of‑age tale follows Esperanza Cordero as she grows up in Chicago’s Mexican-American community, exploring identity through poetic vignettes.

Three teenagers from different eras and continents embark on perilous journeys to escape war, persecution, and tyranny, each facing drowning, bombings and betrayal, yet their stories converge, showing that hope endures across time and borders.

Junior, a budding cartoonist from the Spokane Indian Reservation, transfers to an all‑white farm‑town high school, where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Based on the true story of a Jewish boy's survival during ten concentration camps of the Holocaust, this novel follows Yanek Gruener's harrowing journey from his birth in Poland to the camps in Germany, Germany, and Poland.

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.

Newbery Honor Book National Book Award Finalist

A young girl's journey across borders and through Nazi-occupied Hungary as her mother searches for her in a world of strangers and constant fear of Nazi roundups.

A true story of a 15‑year‑old Jewish boy, Jack Mandelbaum, who is separated from his family and endures the horrors of Nazi concentration camps while holding on to hope, friendship, and the will to survive.

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.

Set after Kristallnacht, "Good‑bye Marianne" follows a Jewish girl in Nazi Germany whose life is shattered as schools close and the Gestapo hunts her father. She encounters a boy in the Hitler Youth, forcing her to confront identity and survival.

A young Jewish woman survives a 1944 train transport to a Nazi death camp, is rescued and raised by those who risked their lives for her, and later finds peace within her own family.

A young cat witnesses the transformation of Berlin’s Rosenstrasse into a site of fear and violence as the 1938 Kristallnacht erupts, offering children a factual glimpse into the Holocaust’s first wave of terror.

A Dutch woman, guided by her grandson, retraces her life as a Jewish girl in Amsterdam during the Holocaust to uncover the fate of her parents before they perished in a concentration camp.

Lucy S. Dawidowicz recounts her personal journey through Lithuania during the late 1930s and early years of World War II, offering a rare first‑hand view of Jewish life before the German invasion.

In the turmoil of World War II Belgium, a young boy named Willy befriends Max and his Jewish family, forming a bond that endures even when they are separated, united by friendship and a treasured painting.

"After observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt articulated her controversial concept of the "banality of evil," thereby posing one of the most chilling and divisive moral questions of the twentieth century: How can genocidal acts be carried out by non-psychopathic people? By revealing the full complexity of the trial with reasoning that defied prevailing attitudes, Arendt became the object of severe and often slanderous criticism, losing some of her closest friends as well as being labeled a "self-hating Jew." And while her theories have continued to draw innumerable opponents, Arendt's work remains an invaluable resource for those seeking greater insight into the more problematic aspects of human nature. Anchoring its discussion in the themes of translation, forgiveness, dramatization, and even laughter, Unlearning with Hannah Arendt explores the ways in which this iconic political theorist "unlearned" recognized trends and patterns - both philosophical and cultural - to establish a theoretical praxis all her own. Through an analysis of the social context and intellectual influences - Karl Jaspers, Walter Benjamin, and Martin Heidegger - that helped shape Arendt's process, Knott has formed a historically engaged and incisive contribution to Arendt's legacy."--Dust jacket of earlier edition.