Number the stars

Format:

Book

Title:

Number the stars

Author:

Lowry, Lois author

ISBN:

9780395510605

9780547577098

9780395509302

9780001841611

9780006736776

9780440403272

9780544340008

9780329898687

9780440227533

Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company,, [1989]

Physical Description:

137 pages ; 22 cm

Contents:

Why are you running? -- Who is the man who rides past? -- Where is Mrs. Hirsch? -- It will be a long night -- Who is the dark-haired one? -- Is the weather good for fishing? -- The house by the sea -- There has been a death -- Let us open the casket -- Will we see you again soon, Peter? -- Where was mama? -- Run! as fast as you can! -- On the dark path -- My dogs smell meat! -- I will tell you just a little -- All this long time -- Afterword.

Summary:

As German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, 10-year-old Annemarie Johansen's family takes in Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her by pretending she's part of the family. Then, through Annemarie's eyes, readers watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark - nearly 7,000 people - across the sea to Sweden.

Reading Level:

Middle School.

670L Lexile.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader 4.5.

Reading Counts! 5.2.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.5 4.0.

Reading Counts RC: U: 5.2 L670: 5.

Subject(s):

World War, 1939-1945 -- Denmark -- Juvenile fiction.

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Denmark -- Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Fiction.

Friendship -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Genre:

Added Corporate Author:

Houghton Mifflin Company,

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Summary

The unforgettable Newbery Medal-winning novel from Lois Lowry. 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.

A modern classic of historical fiction, Number the Stars has won generations of fans and continues to speak to today's readers. Jessica Grose wrote in a November 2022 New York Times essay entitled "This Perfect Mother-Daughter Read Holds a Powerful Lesson for Fighting Antisemitism": "Number the Stars is particularly relevant to our family, and to this moment."

As School Library Journal put it: "Readers are taken to the very heart of Annemarie's experience, and, through her eyes, come to understand the true meaning of bravery."

Author Notes

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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Reviews (2)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 3-7The gripping story of a ten-year-old Danish girl and her family's courageous efforts to smuggle Jews out of their Nazi-occupied homeland to safety in Sweden. Readers are taken to the very heart of Annemarie's experience, and, through her eyes, come to understand the true meaning of bravery. (Mar. 1989) (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Kirkus Review

The author of the Anastasia books as well as more serious fiction (Rabbi Starkey, 1987) offers her first historical fiction--a story about the escape of the Jews from Denmark in 1943. Five years younger than Lisa in Matas' book (below), Annemarie Johansen has, at ten, known three years of Nazi occupation. Though ever cautious and fearful of the ubiquitous soldiers, she is largely unware of the extent of the danger around her; the Resistance kept even its participants safer by telling them as little as possible, and Annemarie has never been told that her older sister Lise died in its service. When the Germans plan to round up the Jews, the Johansens take in Annemarie's friend, Ellen Rosen, and pretend she is their daughter; later, they travel to Uncle Hendrik's house on the coast, where the Rosens and other Jews are transported by fishing boat to Sweden. Apart from Lise's offstage death, there is little violence here; 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 courier on the night of the escape. The book concludes with the Jews' return, after the war, to homes well kept for them by their neighbors. A deftly told story that dramatizes how Danes appointed themselves bodyguards--not only for their king, who was in the habit of riding alone in Copenhagen, but for their Jews. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.