Number the Stars
Title | Number the Stars PDF eBook |
Author | Lois Lowry |
Publisher | Vancouver, BC : Provincial Resource Centre for the Visually-Impaired, 1991. (Burnaby : Library Services Branch) |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1990-08 |
Genre | Large type books |
ISBN | 9780812492972 |
In 1943 Copenhagen, the Germans begin their campaign to "relocate" the Jews of Denmark. So Annemarie Johansen's parents take in her best friend Ellen Rosen and pretend that she is a part of their family.
Number the Stars
Title | Number the Stars PDF eBook |
Author | Lois Lowry |
Publisher | Dramatic Publishing |
Total Pages | 44 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780871298348 |
Presents the libretto for a musical based on Lois Lowry's "Number the Stars," a story in which the family of Annmarie Johansen and their Christian neighbors aid the Danish Jews during World War II by helping them escape to neutral Sweden.
Number the Stars
Title | Number the Stars PDF eBook |
Author | Scholastic, Inc. Staff |
Publisher | Scholastic |
Total Pages | 16 |
Release | 1997-07-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780590366502 |
Includes an author biography, chapter summaries, vocabulary builders, reproducibles, and cross-curricular activities for students of all learning styles for Lois Lowry's novel, "Number the Stars"
Mamaleh Knows Best
Title | Mamaleh Knows Best PDF eBook |
Author | Marjorie Ingall |
Publisher | Harmony |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2016-08-30 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0804141428 |
We all know the stereotype of the Jewish mother: Hectoring, guilt-inducing, clingy as a limpet. In Mamaleh Knows Best, Tablet Magazine columnist Marjorie Ingall smashes this tired trope with a hammer. Blending personal anecdotes, humor, historical texts, and scientific research, Ingall shares Jewish secrets for raising self-sufficient, ethical, and accomplished children. She offers abundant examples showing how Jewish mothers have nurtured their children’s independence, fostered discipline, urged a healthy distrust of authority, consciously cultivated geekiness and kindness, stressed education, and maintained a sense of humor. These time-tested strategies have proven successful in a wide variety of settings and fields over the vast span of history. But you don't have to be Jewish to cultivate the same qualities in your own children. Ingall will make you think, she will make you laugh, and she will make you a better parent. You might not produce a Nobel Prize winner (or hey, you might), but you'll definitely get a great human being.
Anastasia Krupnik
Title | Anastasia Krupnik PDF eBook |
Author | Lois Lowry |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Total Pages | 127 |
Release | 1979-10-24 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0547345623 |
Anastasia's tenth year has some good things, like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother, and some bad things, like finding out about an impending baby brother.
A Thread of Grace
Title | A Thread of Grace PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Doria Russell |
Publisher | Random House |
Total Pages | 546 |
Release | 2005-02-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1588364410 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerfully imagined novel . . . [a] profoundly moving book that engages the heights and depths of human experience.”—Los Angeles Times It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to find safety now that the Italians have broken from Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as it quickly becomes an open battleground for the Nazis, the Allies, Resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and ordinary Italian civilians trying to survive. Tracing the lives of a handful of fascinating characters—a charismatic Italian Resistance leader, a priest, an Italian rabbi’s family, a disillusioned German doctor—Mary Doria Russell tells the little-known story of the vast underground effort by Italian citizens who saved the lives of 43,000 Jews during the final phase of World War II. A Thread of Grace puts a human face on history. Praise for A Thread of Grace “An addictive page-turner . . . [Mary Doria] Russell has an astonishing story to tell—full of action, paced like a rapid-fire thriller, in tense, vivid scenes that move with cinematic verve.”—The Washington Post Book World “Hauntingly beautiful, utterly unforgettable.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Rich . . . Based on the heroism of ordinary people, [A Thread of Grace] packs an emotional punch.”—People “[A] deeply felt and compellingly written book . . . The progress of each character’s life is marked or measured by acts of grace. . . . Russell is a smart, passionate and imaginative writer.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer “A feat of storytelling . . . an important book [that] needs to be widely read.”—Portland Oregonian “Mary Doria Russell’s fans (and aren’t we all?) will rejoice to see her new novel on the shelves. A Thread of Grace is as ambitious, beautiful, tense, and transforming as any of us could have hoped.”—Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club “A story of love and war, A Thread of Grace speaks to the resilience and beauty of the human spirit in the midst of unimaginable horror. It is, unquestionably, a literary triumph.”—David Morrell, author of The Brotherhood of the Rose and First Blood
Stones in Water
Title | Stones in Water PDF eBook |
Author | Donna Jo Napoli |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 164 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780192751690 |
When Roberto sneaks off to see a movie in his Italian village, he has no idea that life as he knows it is over. German soldiers raid the theater, round up the boys in the audience, and pack them onto a train. After a terrifying journey, Roberto and his best friend Samuele find themselves in a brutal work camp, where food is scarce and horror is everywhere. The boys vow to stay together no matter what. But Samuele has a dangerous secret, which, if discovered, could get them both killed. Lovers of historical fiction will be captivated by this tragic, triumphant, and deeply moving novel.