Europe
	I HAVE LIVED A THOUSAND YEARS by Livia Bitton-Jackson The author describes her experiences during World War II when she and her family were sent to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.   THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS by John Boyne Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.   ZLATA’S DIARY by Zlata Filipovic From September 1991 through October 1993, young Zlata Filipovic kept a diary which becomes a  first hand account of life in embattled Sarajevo.   THE ENDLESS STEPPE by Esther Hautzig During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.   WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT by Judith Kerr. Recounts the adventures of a nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family in the early 1930's as they travel from Germany to Europe.   BETWEEN SHADES OF GREY by Ruta Sepetys. In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil.   SO FAR FROM THE BAMBOO GROVE by Yoko Kawashima Watkins A fictionalized autobiography in which eight-year-old Yoko escapes from Korea to Japan with her mother and sister at the end of World War II.   AFTER THE TRAIN by Gloria Whelan Ten years after the end of the Second World War, the town of Rolfen, West Germany, looks just as peaceful and beautiful as ever, until young Peter Liebig discovers a secret about his past that leads him to question everything, including the town's calm facade and his own sense of comfort and belonging.