Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

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Publication Information: New York: Houghton Mifflin 1989. 137 p.

Reading Level: Older Adults
Lexile: 670

Sydney Taylor Book Awards 1989
Charlotte Award 1992
Newberry Medal 1990
Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Choice Award 1992
Great Stone Face Children's Book Award 1992

Kirkus Reviews, March 15, 1989 Starred Review
School Library Journal Review March 1989

On September 29, 1943, word got out in Denmark that Jews were to be detained and then sent to the death camps. Within hours, 7,000 Jews fled to Sweden. Number the Stars tells the true-story account of 10-year-old Annemarie Johannesen, whose family hides her best friend, Ellen Rosen, on the eve of the round-up and helps smuggles Ellen's family out of the country to safey.

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