Audience: Middle School Format: Hardcover/Library Copy The afternoon the bombs start falling, I get my highest score ever on my favorite video game. Eleven-year-old Ali Fadhil lives in Basra, Iraq. He loves American television, Superman comic books, and playing soccer with his friends. When an...
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The premise sounded better than its delivery. The story is of the Lodz ghetto in Poland, and of the 270,000 Jews that were put in, only 800 survived. 12 were children, and Sylvia (the author's aunt) was one of them. This is the retelling of her experience as a young child of 4 when the ghetto wa...
I liked how the book was all in verse.
I liked how the book was all in verse.