Title: Number the Stars
Author: Louis Lowry
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Subgenre: Realistic Fiction
Themes: Nazi, Friendship, Hardships, Courage
Primary Characters: Annemarie Johansen and Ellen Rosen
Awards: 1990 Newbery Winner
Date of publication: 1989
Publishing Company: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Summary: This book is about a ten year old named Annemarie
Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen. They live in a dangerous world with Nazi
soldiers and food shortages. The Jews of Denmark are being “relocated”, so
Ellen moves in with Annemarie to pretend to be part of their family in order to
save her life.
In the classroom: This book will open up many
discussions of how life was during that time. I think it is essential that
students are aware of the things that have taken place in the past and understand
the great depth of what it meant to be a Jew.
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