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Perhaps the title most closely related to Two Suns in the Sky is Good Night, Maman, by Norma Fox Mazer. Like Bat-Ami, Mazer focuses on the camp in Oswego, but Mazer tells the refugee story through the eyes of Karin Levi, who had to leave Europe without her ailing mother or her father, who was captive at Auschwitz. In first-person narrative, Mazer discusses Karin's wartime experiences: her escape to America, her arrival at Oswego, and her struggle to adjust to American culture while dealing with the pain of leaving loved ones behind. Other young adult novels that help bring the Holocaust into focus include The Diary of Anne Frank, Lois Lowry's Number the Stars, and Ida Vos's Anna Is Still Here and Dancing on the Bridge of Avignon. The protagonists in all of these books are Jewish, and they all recount their experiences of persecution by...
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