Kathy Kacer

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1992
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Multi-Author Series List

Holocaust Rememberance

The Secret of Gabi's Dresser (Jan-1992)
The Night Spies (Jan-2001)
The Diary of Laura's Twin (Sep-2008)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • The Secret of Gabi's Dresser

    Holocaust Rememberance

    From award-winning author Kathy Kacer â€" Gabi, our heroine, recounts how as a young Jewish girl she lived on a family farm in Eastern Europe during the Second World War. She describes her community before the Nazi occupation and the events that unfo...

  • Clara's War

    From award-winning author Kathy Kacer - It's already a dangerous time for thirteen-year-old Clara and her family. They have just been imprisoned in Terezin (Terezinstadt), a ghetto in a medieval town near Prague -- which was built to show the wor...

  • The Night Spies

    Holocaust Rememberance

    Based on real events and real characters! It is the middle of World War II, and Gabi and her mother have been lucky so far, eluding the grasp of Nazi soldiers who are sending Jewish people away to unknown fates. But she, her mother and her young cou...

  • Hiding Edith

    The remarkable true story of a young girl named Edith and the French village of Moissac that helped her and many other children during the Holocaust. The town's mayor and citizens concealed the presence of hundreds of Jewish children who lived in...

  • The Diary of Laura's Twin

    Holocaust Rememberance

    Laura has just three weeks to go before her Jewish “coming of age” ceremony, called a Bat Mitzvah, when she is assigned a special project. She is to read the diary of Sara Gittler, a young girl her own age who was imprisoned by the Nazis in the W...

  • Restitution: A Family's Fight for Their Heritage Lost in the Holocaust

    Restitution begins in a small Czech town on the eve of the Nazi invasion. The Reesers are Jewish and know that they must flee, but before leaving they deliver four valuable oil paintings into the hands of a business partner for safekeeping. Led by th...

  • The Magician of Auschwitz

    Once there was a renowned magician called Nivelli, who performed before packed audiences in the grandest theaters of Berlin. Night after night, his fans applauded and called out for more astonishing feats of magic. “Bravo!” they would shout, as N...

  • Stones on a Grave

    Sara has never been out of the tiny town of Hope, Ontario, where she has been in an orphanage all her life. After a fire destroys the orphanage, clues about her parentage -- a medical certificate and a Star of David -- lead her to Germany. Despite he...

  • The Sound of Freedom

    Anna and her family have only one hope left to escape certain doom. It’s 1936 and life is becoming dangerous for the Jews of Krakow. As incidents of violence and persecution increase day by day, Anna begs her father to leave Poland, but he insists ...



  • Masters of Silence

    Silence can be powerful. Kathy Kacer’s second book in her middle grade series about heroic rescues during WWII tells the tale of siblings Helen and Henry, and history’s most famous mime. Desperate to save them from the Nazis, Henry and Helen’...

  • The Brave Princess and Me

    In 1943, the Second World War is raging, and the Nazis have taken control of most of Europe―including Athens, where Princess Alice of Greece lives. Princess Alice is kind and accepting of different types of people. Something the Nazis are not. Born...

  • Louder Than Words

    Heroic actions speak volumes in a powerful middle grade novel based on real WWII events.Life is becoming ever more terrifying for the Jewish community as the Second World War envelops their lives. For twelve-year-old Dina and her sisters, things get ...

  • The Brushmaker's Daughter

    It is 1939 in Berlin, Germany, and twelve-year-old Lillian and her Papa are on the run from Nazi soldiers. Because they are Jewish, they are in danger of being arrested and put in prison. Lillian's father is blind and it seems no one is willing t...

  • Call Across the Sea

    History is made one brave act at a time.Henny has grown up with her father’s boat, the Gerda III, as a home away from home. She loves sailing the waters between Denmark and Sweden, carried along by the salt breeze. But when Nazi rule tightens in Co...

  • Under the Iron Bridge

    It’s 1938 in Dusseldorf, Germany, and Paul is feeling pressured to join the Hitler Youth. The last thing he wants to do is march around with a bunch of bullies, supporting the Gestapo and abusing the city’s Jews, but even Paul’s parents think h...

  • Hidden on the High Wire

    Irene grew up traveling around Germany with her family’s circus, surrounded by her loved ones and thrilling the crowds with her performance on the high wire...until one day, the audience boos. The Lorch family is Jewish, and the increasing power of...

  • Two Pieces of Chocolate

    In 1945, young Francine and her maman are sent to the Bergen-Belsen Nazi prison camp, where life is gray and hopeless. Determined to lift Francine’s spirits, Maman shares a secret: hidden inside her bag are two pieces of chocolate. They’re the fi...

Award-Winning Books by Kathy Kacer

The Diary of Laura's Twin
2008 National Jewish Book Award -- Children/Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kathy Kacer has published 17 books.

Kathy Kacer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Two Pieces of Chocolate, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Kathy Kacer, The Secret of Gabi's Dresser, was published in January 1992.

No. Kathy Kacer does not write books in series.
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