Number the Stars
Selected Book Details
- Mass Market Paperback
- Author: Lois Lowry
- Publisher: Laurel Leaf
- Release Date: February 1998
- Reading Level: Ages 9-12
- ISBN-10: 0440227534
- ISBN-13: 9780440227533
- List Price: $6.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryThe evacuation of Jews from Nazi-held Denmark is one of the great untold stories of World War II. On September 29, 1943, word got out in Denmark that Jews were to be detained and then sent to the death camps. Within hours the Danish resistance, population and police arranged a small flotilla to herd 7,000 Jews to Sweden. Lois Lowry fictionalizes a true-story account to bring this courageous tale to life. She brings the experience to life through the eyes of 10-year-old Annemarie Johannesen, whose family harbors her best friend, Ellen Rosen, on the eve of the round-up and helps smuggles Ellen's family out of the country. Number the Stars won the 1990 Newbery Medal. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
A very good book
Rating:
I am 10 years old, and I read this book because my sister read it and loved it. I didn't think I would like it, but I read it anyway. After I read the first chapter I couldn't put it down! That's how good it is. Usally it takes me at least 2 weeks to read a book, but I read this in 6 days. It is one of my favorites. Good book! In fact extra good book!
Developing Personal Integrity
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"Developing Personal Integrity"
Various YA books tackle the theme of European resistance to the Nazi regime: Holland, France, Germany itself, Norway and here Denmark--easily accessible to the ferocious might of the Third Reich. In September of 1943 the Nazis invaded their small neighbor to the north and issued a decree closing all synagogues--which ushered in a time of terror, arrest, and the "Relocation" of the entire Jewish population to what we now know were death camps. This Holocaust period (until the Allied victory in WW2) was a time of brutality and moral testing of all normal adults--not a typical
setting for a YA novel.
In NUMBER THE STARS we meet ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her brave family. When Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, is in peril the Johansens reveal the courage of their personal convictions; they work together at great risk, to rescue the condemned girl and her family.
Nor did they stop there, for Peter, Annemarie's future brother-in-law, undertakes to shepherd 7000 Jews into Sweden. This gripping story demonstrates how friendship transcends both religious differences and totalitarian threats. All Germans and Europeans had to look into their own hearts and draw the line re how much they would stomach in the name of nationalism. But Annemarie is terrified when she discovers Ellen's necklace--a Star of David on a chain--in her room, while Nazi soldiers are searching their residence. Does the fate of thousands rest on the courage of a sweet little girl? Could this fragile necklace prove one star too many?
Serviceable Holocaust story
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This is a somewhat lackluster but serviceable Holocaust story -- or maybe near miss of the Holocaust story, because it's about the Danes' rescuing "their" Jews when the Nazis came to round them up in 1943. Annemarie's best friend Ellen is Jewish, and family first hides her, then, then arranges through the Underground for Ellen's family to be smuggled to Sweden. Annemarie has to carry a basket containing a mysterious packet through the woods to her uncle, who is a member of the underground, and she is stopped by German soldiers -- the climax of the story. She learns that ordinary people can be courageous, yada yada.
A nice touch is that Annemarie and her mother tell stories, their own memories and fairy tales, as a means of making the scary familiar. This is subtle -- not hammered into the reader's head -- and conveys the importance of tales for understanding the human plight.
A defiantly would recommend kind of book
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It's been a while since I read this book. I am 25 years old and I read this book in the 5th grade for school so that would be 16 years ago... And I have to say this is one of the few books (Ann Frank, where the Red Fern Grows, and Romeo and Juliet were others) that I really REMEMBER and would like to read again at my age now. I enjoyed this book and this is where I really had a sense of what history was about.
Number The Stars
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I am African American/Hispanic, and I think that it is very important to teach children about the struggles that each race has endured throughout history, and this book, 'Number The Stars' has proven to be an excellant learning tool. It tells a story affilliated with the holocaust.
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