Number the Stars- Lois Lowry

Title: Number the Stars
Author: Lowry, Lois
Publisher: Random House, 1989
ISBN-13: 9780440403272

Genre: Historical Fiction
Reading Level: 670 Lexile
Interest Level: 9+

Awards:
Newbery Medal, Mark Twain Award, Jane Adedams Children's Book Award, Golden Archer Award- Twice, Maine Student Award, Dorthy Canfield Fisher, Great Stone Face, Rebecca Caudill, New York State Charlotte, Sydney Taylor Award

Readers Annotation: Its 1943 and the Jewish people of Denmark are being "relocated" to concentration camps. Can they be saved?

Plot:
Annemarie Johansen is friends with a Jewish girl Ellen. They are very close but when the Nazi's take over, their friendship takes a very different turn. Annemarie now needs to make a decision. Hide her friend and try to save her from relocation to a concentration camp or let her go. Annemarie's family bands together to smuggle Ellen and her family out of the country. This book takes the reader into the world during the Nazi rule. There is a fear instilled in everyone and the humanity of everyone helping these people is clear.

Review:
This book is 23 years old and still is read by many tweens. There is a human quality to this book is one that is very rare. This book is fabulous and emotional. The bravery Annemarie and her family shows gives the generations of today a look into what it was like then. We have been in a war the last years, but nothing like the rein of the Nazis. This book talks about acceptance and the love of a person no matter who they are or how they believe.

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