What books are similar to The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival?

The 10 closest matches to The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival by Estelle Nadel on ReadingList include Beasts, Brownstone, Death in the Jungle, Divergent, and His Face Is the Sun. Each is scored on shared themes, shared award lists, genre, and reading level (grades 9–12), and links to the curricula, states, and grades where it is assigned in US schools, with primary sources.

How does ReadingList choose similar books?

Matches are ranked by shared themes, shared award and reading-program lists (two books picked for the same state award were chosen by the same committees for the same readers), same genre, comparable Lexile and grade band, and publication decade — computed from cited public curriculum data, not editorial opinion or AI-generated summaries.

Books like The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival

If you liked The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival, read Beasts, Brownstone, or Death in the Jungle — the closest matches in our database, matched on shared award lists and reading level.

Looking for books like The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival by Estelle Nadel (Juvenile Nonfiction · grades 9–12)? The 10 titles below are the closest matches in the ReadingList database — each scored on shared themes, shared award lists, genre, and reading level, and each linked to the curricula, states, and grades where it’s assigned, with primary sources.

These are reading-level matches, not just topical ones — so the picks stay grade-appropriate for a grades 9–12 reader. See how we judge text difficulty on our methodology page.

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Beastsgrades 9–12: Both on the Great Lakes Great Books Award list and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
Brownstonegrades 9–12: Both on the Great Lakes Great Books Award list and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
Death in the Junglegrades 4–10: Both on the Great Lakes Great Books Award list and overlapping grades (4–10). Amazon → books like this →
Divergentgrades 8–12: Both on the Great Lakes Great Books Award list and overlapping grades (8–12). Amazon → books like this →
His Face Is the Sungrades 9–12: Both on the Great Lakes Great Books Award list and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
Long Way Down720L: Both on the Great Lakes Great Books Award list and overlapping grades (7–12). Amazon → books like this →
Orbiting Jupitergrades 7–10: Both on the Great Lakes Great Books Award list and overlapping grades (7–10). Amazon → books like this →
Plain Jane and the Mermaidgrades 9–12: Both on the Great Lakes Great Books Award list and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
Sisters in the Windgrades 9–12: Both on the Great Lakes Great Books Award list and overlapping grades (9–12). Amazon → books like this →
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian600L: Both on the Great Lakes Great Books Award list and overlapping grades (7–10). Amazon → books like this →

Books like The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival for younger readers (K–2)

Closest matches whose grade range overlaps K–2— same scoring, different audience.

Cactus Queen: Minerva Hoyt Establishes Joshua Tree National Park by Lori Alexander · grades 2–3 — Both on the Great Lakes Great Books Award list and same genre (Juvenile Nonfiction).
Forests by Nell Cross Beckerman · grades 2–3 — Both on the Great Lakes Great Books Award list and same genre (Juvenile Nonfiction).
Baboushka and the Three Kings by Ruth Robbins · grades K–3 — Same genre (Juvenile Nonfiction).
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford · grades K–3 — Same genre (Juvenile Nonfiction).
Out of Wonder by Kwame Alexander · grades K–3 — Same genre (Juvenile Nonfiction).

Books like The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival for elementary readers (grades 3–5)

Closest matches whose grade range overlaps 3–5— same scoring, different audience.

Cactus Queen: Minerva Hoyt Establishes Joshua Tree National Park by Lori Alexander · grades 2–3 — Both on the Great Lakes Great Books Award list and same genre (Juvenile Nonfiction).
Dear Dad: Growing Up With a Parent in Prison - And How We Stayed Connected by Jay Jay Patton · grades 4–5 — Both on the Great Lakes Great Books Award list and same genre (Juvenile Nonfiction).
Forests by Nell Cross Beckerman · grades 2–3 — Both on the Great Lakes Great Books Award list and same genre (Juvenile Nonfiction).
Is It Real?: The Loch Ness Monster by Candace Fleming · grades 4–5 — Both on the Great Lakes Great Books Award list and same genre (Juvenile Nonfiction).
Polar: Wildlife at the Ends of the Earth by L. E. Carmichael · grades 4–5 — Both on the Great Lakes Great Books Award list and same genre (Juvenile Nonfiction).

Books like The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival for middle school (grades 6–8)

Closest matches whose grade range overlaps 6–8— same scoring, different audience.

Weirdo by Tony Weaver, Jr. · grades 6–8 — Both on the Great Lakes Great Books Award list and same genre (Juvenile Nonfiction).
Wish I Was a Baller by Amar Shah · grades 6–8 — Both on the Great Lakes Great Books Award list and same genre (Juvenile Nonfiction).
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass by Russell Freedman · grades 3–7 — Same genre (Juvenile Nonfiction).
Maid for It by Jamie Sumner · grades 6–8 — Same genre (Juvenile Nonfiction).
Now Is Your Time by Walter Dean Myers · grades 4–8 — Same genre (Juvenile Nonfiction).

Common questions

What books are similar to The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival?: The 10 closest matches to The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival by Estelle Nadel on ReadingList include Beasts, Brownstone, Death in the Jungle, Divergent, and His Face Is the Sun. Each is scored on shared themes, shared award lists, genre, and reading level (grades 9–12), and links to the curricula, states, and grades where it is assigned in US schools, with primary sources.
Are books like The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival reading-level appropriate?: Yes — every match is a reading-level match, not just a topical one, scored on Lexile and grade band (grades 9–12), so the picks stay grade-appropriate. See how ReadingList judges text difficulty on the /standard methodology page.
How does ReadingList choose similar books?: Matches are ranked by shared themes, shared award and reading-program lists (two books picked for the same state award were chosen by the same committees for the same readers), same genre, comparable Lexile and grade band, and publication decade — computed from cited public curriculum data, not editorial opinion or AI-generated summaries.

Book data last updated 2026-09-05. Matches are computed from each book’s cited attributes — see the methodology.

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