(3) K-3 Illustrated by Gillian Newland. The author shares a story based on her grandmother Irene's experience in an Indian residential school in Ontario, Canada. Taken away from her family, Irene suffers emotional trauma and abuse at the hands of Christian missionaries. Featuring powerful watercolor and ink illustrations, a straightforwardly told first-person narrative of resistance and strength. Author's note included.

Reviewer: Alia Jones

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Gillian Newland. In a fictionalization of a true story, young Auschwitz inmate Werner is befriended and sustained by his bunkmate Herr Levin, a magician. Dark sepia and charcoal illustrations capture the concentration camp's bleakness, with playing cards and Nazi armbands the only flashes of color. Werner's unrealistically wide-eyed perspective offers a gentle entrance to Holocaust history. Appended notes add more historical information.

Reviewer: Claire E. Gross