Pub Date: April 24, 1989
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 88037134
Lexile Code: 0670
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 10 to 12
Physical Info: 0.60" H x 8.09" L x 5.78" W ( 0.59 lbs) 144 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Classics | Historical | Holocaust | Social Themes | Friendship | Girls & Women | Values & Virtues | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes) | Military & Wars | War & Military | Books & Libraries | Places | Europe
Description: This Newbery Medal Book describes how a ten-year-old Danish girl's bravery is tested when her best friend is threatened by Nazis in 1943.
Brief description:
Lois Lowry is the author of more than fifty books for children and young adults, including the New York Times bestselling Giver Quartet and the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, Number the Stars and The Giver.
Review Quotes:
"The whole work is seamless, compelling, and memorable--impossible to put down; difficult to forget." - The Horn Book
"Like Annemarie, the reader is protected from the full implications of events--but will be caught up in the suspense and menace of several encounters with soldiers and in Annemarie's courageous run as a courier on the night of the escape." - Kirkus Reviews
"Readers are taken to the very heart of Annemarie's experience, and, through her eyes, come to understand the true meaning of bravery." - School Library Journal