Number the Stars

by Lois Lowry

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.

  • Format: eBook
  • ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780547345444
  • ISBN-10: 0547345445
  • Pages: 144
  • Publication Date: 04/24/1989
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  • About the Book

    As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family.

    Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, nearly seven thousand people, across the sea to Sweden. The heroism of an entire nation reminds us that there was pride and human decency in the world even during a time of terror and war.

    Winner of the 1990 Newbery Medal.

  • About the Author

    Lois Lowry

    Lois Lowry is the author of more than forty books for children and young adults, including the New York Times bestselling Giver Quartet and 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's Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, Number the Stars and The Giver. Her first novel, A Summer to Die, was awarded the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. Ms. Lowry lives in Maine. www.loislowry.com  Twitter @LoisLowryWriter

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    "The whole work is seamless, compelling, and memorable--impossible to put down; difficult to forget." Horn Book

    "The whole work is seamless, compelling, and memorable -- impossible to put down; difficult to forget." Horn Book Guide
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