The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible...on Schindler's List
by Leon Leyson
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- Grade
- 5-8
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- Jewish
Year Published 2013
Word Count 39,195
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1000L
- ATOS Reading Level: 7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 160814, 7 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Narewka (Poland)
- Jews
- Rescue
- Leyson, Leon, 1929-2013
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Concentration camp inmates--Poland--PÅ‚aszoÌw--Biography
- World War, 1939-1945
- Jewish children in the Holocaust
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue
- Krakaow
- Schindler, Oskar, 1908-1974
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- PÅ‚aszoÌw (Concentration camp)
- Poland
- Narewka (Poland)--Biography
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Holocaust
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Paszaow (Concentration camp)
- Jews--Poland--Narewka--Biography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--KrakoÌw--Personal narratives
- Narewka
- Schindler, Oskar
- Concentration camp inmates
- Paszaow
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland--KrakoÌw--Biography
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography
- Leyson, Leon
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Exploration & Discovery
- Lists With This Book
- Religion
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- Holocaust Literature
- Sample: EL Education, Grades 6-8
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ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2014
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Biography Selection, 2014
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Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2023
Nonfiction Selection, 2013
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