↳ RAISE THE FUTURE
Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
The Nazis are rounding up Jews. Her family hides her best friend.
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your child is ready to understand that ordinary people choose whether to protect each other or look away — and that the choice matters
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Copenhagen, 1943. Annemarie Johansen is ten years old when the Nazis begin rounding up Denmark's Jewish population. Her best friend Ellen is Jewish. Annemarie's family hides her, then helps smuggle her family to neutral Sweden with a fishing boat and a packet of special powder and more courage than any of them knew they had. Lowry based this on the true story of the Danish resistance — the only Nazi-occupied country that organized a mass rescue of its Jewish population. A Newbery Medal winner that tells children the truth: that ordinary people made the choice to hide their neighbors, and that this choice was available to everyone, and that most people in most countries did not make it.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Denmark • Europe
- Voice
- An outside perspective on Denmark
- Themes
- After EmpireWitness
