"Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel. " — Lois LowryI was in the 7th grade when I first read this book. I was to young to understand everything that was go...
Was it a wolf that Annemarie encountered as she ran through the woods on her important errand? Was it also a wolf that stood before her, silent and waiting as she approached the turn in the path? The story of Little Red Riding-Hood is woven into this book wonderfully and the innocence of a child cap...
It's 1943, and ten-year old Annemarie Johansen lives in a Nazi-occupied Copenhagen. She lives with her parents and her little sister, Kirsti, and her best friend, Ellen Rosen, lives just down the hall with her family. On the night of the Jewish New Year, the Rosens are forced to flee their home, a...
Read the FULL REVIEWAnnemarie was living a relatively normal life despite the war. Then the Nazi’s start their search for Jews. Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen, is a Jew, and so to keep her safe, Annemarie’s family takes her in and pretend she’s Annemarie’s sister.
Number the Stars is a story centralized around Denmark after the German invasion in 1940 (WW2). Though this is a fictional tale, Lois Lowry explains in the afterword that it is based on the true stories her friend told her of living in Copenhagen during the events of The Holocaust.This book, like so...
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