Number the Stars
Will be published approx. on 1. January 2049
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-00-852333-6 (ISBN)
Description
This beautiful HarperCollins Children's Modern Classics edition is perfect for every bookshelf.
It is 1943 and life in Copenhagen is becoming complicated for ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen. There are food shortages and curfews and soldiers on every corner.
But it is even worse for her Jewish best friend Ellen as the Nazis continue their brutal campaign of terror. With Ellen in grave danger, Annemarie must summon all her courage to help stage a daring escape.
Inspired by true events of the Second World War, this Newbery Award-winning novel is a vivid and very human story of friendship and survival.
Complete your library with HarperCollins Children's Classics.
It is 1943 and life in Copenhagen is becoming complicated for ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen. There are food shortages and curfews and soldiers on every corner.
But it is even worse for her Jewish best friend Ellen as the Nazis continue their brutal campaign of terror. With Ellen in grave danger, Annemarie must summon all her courage to help stage a daring escape.
Inspired by true events of the Second World War, this Newbery Award-winning novel is a vivid and very human story of friendship and survival.
Complete your library with HarperCollins Children's Classics.
Reviews / Votes
"A moving and important novel." John Boyne, bestselling author of 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'"...a decent, brave and likeable heroine who is caught by accident in harsh political affairs. NUMBER THE STARS is a simple, but effective tale.' - Times Educational Supplement
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 9 years
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
270 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-852333-6 (9780008523336)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
LOIS LOWRY, author of over thirty novels and twice winner of the Newbery Medal for The Giver and Number the Stars,was born on the 20th of March 1937 in Hawaii. Her father was an Army dentist and the family lived all over the world. She went to Brown University, but left to get married and a raise a family. She settled in Maine, and returned to college receiving a degree from the University of Southern Maine. She fulfilled a childhood dream when she started writing in the 1970s.