18 books like Let the Celebrations Begin!

What to read after Let the Celebrations Begin! — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

My Enemy, My Brother

My Enemy, My Brother James D. Forman · 1969 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Released from a concentration camp after World War II, a sixteen-year-old boy settles on an Israeli kibbutz but finds his new life threatened by the growing conflict between Arabs and Jews. Shares Jews, War, Children's fiction

Oorlog zonder vrienden Evert Hartman · 1982 · ★ 3.8 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In a small Dutch town during World War II, fourteen-year-old Arnold, a member of the Hitler Youth, feels increasingly isolated and trapped between his father's fervent support of the Nazi party and his classmates' hostile opposition to all the Nazis stand for. Shares World War II, War, Children's fiction

The devil's arithmetic Jane Yolen · 1988 · ★ 4.4 · 170p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Hannah thinks tonight's Passover Seder will be the same as always. Little does she know that this year she will be mysteriously transported into the past where only she knows the horrors that await. Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland. Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage… Shares Concentration Camps, Holocaust, Jews, Children's fiction

Hitler's Canary Sandi Toksvig · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Bamsé Skolvud a 12 ans quand les nazis envahissent Copenhague. Son meilleur ami, Anton Beilin, est juif. Confronté à l'antisémitisme, il va tout faire pour protéger Anton et sa famille. Shares Holocaust, Jews, World War II, War

The Machine Gunners Robert Westall · 1975 · ★ 3.5 · 187p · ≈ 6h · Moderate After an air raid, a group of English children find a German machine gun and hide it from adults who are looking for it. Shares World War II, War, Children's fiction

The Night is for Hunting John Marsden · 1999 · ★ 5.0 · 245p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Hell’s a big place, but it gets crowded when Ellie and her friends take an uncooperative crew of orphans under their wing and into their hidden refuge. It’s not easy to keep four young children busy and happy in the bush, and things only get worse when Ellie and Homer find evidence that mysterious visitors have discovered their sanctuary. Could it be a patrol of enemy soldiers sent on a search… Shares Child and youth fiction, War, Children's fiction

Burning for Revenge

Burning for Revenge John Marsden · 2000 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Child and youth fiction, War, Children's fiction with this book.

Rose Blanche Ian McEwan · 1985 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Shares Concentration Camps, War, Children's fiction with this book.

The Boys from Brazil Ira Levin · 1637 · ★ 3.9 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Challenging A Group of Obscure Men Ninety-four civil servants. All aged Sixty-five. Harmless men. In different countries. All of them marked for death. Unknowing Guardians of a Monster Their deaths will be but the beginning. They will lay the groundwork for a grand scheme. A plan which will fulfill a long-thwarted destiny. Change the future of humanity. And allow history's greatest evil to… Shares Concentration Camps, Holocaust, World War II

Star wars Toshiki Kudo · 1999 · ★ 4.1 Shares War, Children's fiction with this book.

The Winemaker's Wife

The Winemaker's Wife Kristin Harmel · 2019 · ★ 4.5 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "Champagne, 1940: Inès has just married Michel, the owner of storied champagne house Maison Chauveau, when the Germans invade. As the danger mounts, Michel turns his back on his marriage to begin hiding munitions for the Résistance. Inès fears they'll be exposed, but for Céline, half-Jewish wife of Chauveau's chef de cave, the risk is even greater-rumors abound of Jews being shipped east to an… Shares Holocaust, Jews, World War II

Behauptete Subjektivität

Behauptete Subjektivität Markus Malo · 2009 · 338p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Holocaust survivors, Jews with this book.

Maus I Art Spiegelman · 1986 · ★ 4.4 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself. Shares Holocaust survivors, Holocaust

Rule Of Law Dexter Dias · 1997 · ★ 4.4 · 483p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Shares Concentration Camps, World War II with this book.

Se questo è un uomo Primo Levi · 1947 · ★ 4.5 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Moderate This book describes Primo Levi's experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in Auschwitz before the camp was liberated by the Red Army. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his shipment, Levi was one of only twenty who left the camp alive. The average life expectancy of a new entry was three months. This truly amazing… Shares Concentration Camps, Holocaust, World War II

The Slopes of War Norah Perez · 1990 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate In the summer of 1863, Bekah Summerhill watches as Confederate troops sweep through her sleepy Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, in a panoramic tale about the turning point of the Civil War. Shares War, Children's fiction

Little Brother

Little Brother Allan Baillie · 1990 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Child and youth fiction, War, Children's fiction with this book.

Number the Stars Lois Lowry · 1901 · ★ 4.2 · 149p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend, Ellen Rosen, often think about life before the war. But it's now 1943, and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching in their town. The Nazis won't stop. The Jews of Denmark are being "relocated," so Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be part of the family. Then Annemarie is… Shares Holocaust, Jews, World War II

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