Jars of Hope: How One Woman Helped Save 2,500 Children During the Holocaust
by Jennifer Roy and Meg Owenson
Amid the horrors of World War II, Irena Sendler was an unlikely and unsung hero.... read more
- Grade
- 1-5
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2016
Word Count 2,170
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 630L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.2
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 175044, 0.5 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Jews
- 20th century
- Rescue
- Ethnic relations
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Poland--Biography--Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945
- Jewish children in the Holocaust
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Warsaw--Juvenile literature
- Poland
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Warsaw
- Sendlerowa, Irena
- Poland--Ethnic relations--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
- Biographies
- History
- World War 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Poland--Juvenile literature
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography
- Sendlerowa, Irena, 1910-2008--Juvenile literature
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland--Warsaw--Juvenile literature
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