Independent Reading Suggested Books for Encountering Evil: Night
Additional Texts by the Author
- All Rivers Run to the Sea by Elie Wiesel
- Dawn by Elie Wiesel (740L)
- Day by Elie Wiesel (520L)
- Open Heart by Elie Wiesel
Fiction Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics
- Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation by Anne Frank
- Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys (490L)
- Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan (680L)
- Hannah’s Suitcase by Karen Levine *
- Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust by Loic Dauvillier (530L) *
- Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe (940L)
- Mapping the Bones by Jane Yolen (790L)
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormack (710L)
- Resistance by Jennifer Neilsen
- The Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (730L)
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (1000L) *
- The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen (730L) *
- The Dollmaker of Krakow by R.M. Romero (810L)
- The Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse (720L)
- The Milk of Birds by Sylvia Whitman (780L)
- When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr (940L) *
Non-Fiction Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
- Branded by the Pink Triangle by Ken Setterington
- First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung (920L)
- “Stories from Rwanda” by Philip Gourevitch
- Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic (640L)
* lower Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
** higher Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
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