Number the Stars (A Yearling book)

by Lois Lowry

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A powerful story set in Nazi occupied Denmark in 1943. Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is called upon for a selfless act of bravery to help save her best-friend, Ellen - a Jew. It is 1943 and for ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen life is still fun - school, family, sharing fairy stories with her little sister. But there are dangers and worries too - the Nazis have occupied Copenhagen and there are food shortages, curfews and the constant threat of being stopped by soldiers. And for Annemarie the dangers become even greater...her best-friend Ellen is a Jew. When Ellen's parents are taken...Read more
  • ISBN10 0440227534
  • ISBN13 9780440227533
  • Publish Date 9 February 1998 (first published 1 January 1989)
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Out of Print 25 September 2012
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 137
  • Language English