Is It Night or Day?
It’s 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move from the tiny German village she’s lived in all her life to a place that seems as foreign as the moon: Chicago, Illinois. And she will be doing it alone. This dramatic and chilling novel about one girl’s escape from Hitler’s Germany was...
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It’s 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move from the tiny German village she’s lived in all her life to a place that seems as foreign as the moon: Chicago, Illinois. And she will be doing it alone. This dramatic and chilling novel about one girl’s escape from Hitler’s Germany was inspired by the experiences of the author’s mother, one of twelve hundred children rescued by Americans as part of the One Thousand Children project. Is It Night or Day? is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374177447 (0374177449)
Publish date: March 16th 2010
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
History,
Cultural,
Juvenile,
Historical Fiction,
Middle Grade,
War,
World War II,
Holocaust,
Germany
1938. Twelve-year old Edith has lived a protected life in the tiny German town of Stockstadt am Rhein. Now, as brutal acts of anti-Semitism explode in Hitler's Germany, she is about to travel thousands of miles over land and sea to a place that seems as foreign as the moon: Chicago, Illinois. And b...
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