Title Irena's children : a true story of courage by Tilar J. Mazzeo / adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell.

Publication Info.	New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2016]
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Location	Call No.	Status
Avon Free Public Library - Teen	TEEN 940.53 MAZZEO	Check Shelf
Middletown, Russell Library - Children's Nonfiction	J 940.5318 MAZ	On Display

Edition	Young readers edition.
Description	xiv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-257).
Contents	Introduction -- Prologue -- War -- Occupation -- Resistance -- Segregated and isolated -- Life in the ghetto -- Raising the stakes -- Expanding operations -- Rumors -- Deportation -- Selektions -- Time running out -- Crisis -- Toward the precipice -- The ghetto uprising -- Gestapo raid -- Pawiak Prison -- Execution -- Irena goes underground -- After the war.
Summary	A gripping account of Irena Sendler, who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 7.1 9 184410.
Subject	Sendlerowa, Irena, 1910-2008 -- Juvenile literature.
	Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Poland -- Juvenile literature.
	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Juvenile literature.
	Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Juvenile literature.
	Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Juvenile literature.
	Warsaw (Poland) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Biography.
	Warsaw (Poland) -- Biography.
	Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
	Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945.
	Sendlerowa, Irena, 1910-2008. (OCoLC)fst01719560
	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst00958866
	Jews rescue (1939-1945 : World War) (OCoLC)fst01710189
	World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
	Jewish children in the Holocaust. (OCoLC)fst00982706
	Jews. (OCoLC)fst00983135
	Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. (OCoLC)fst01097945
	Poland. (OCoLC)fst01206891
	Poland -- Warsaw. (OCoLC)fst01204515
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
	Biographies.
Added Author	Farrell, Mary Cronk, author.
	Torok, Shana, illustrator.
Other Form:	Adaptation of (work): Mazzeo, Tilar J. Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto. New York : Gallery Books, 2016 (DLC) 2015051244
ISBN	9781481449915 (hardcover ;) (alk. paper)
	1481449915 (hardcover ;) (alk. paper)
	9781481449922 (paperback;) (alk. paper)
	1481449923 (paperback;) (alk. paper)

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