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Number the Stars

By: Lois Lowry
Narrated by: Blair Brown
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Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated," Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen's life. Fiction Growing Up & Facts of Life Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction Denmark War Kids Literature
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“A story of Denmark and the Danish people, whose Resistance was so effective in saving their Jews.”—School Library Journal, Starred
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Read and loved by the whole Family...for the younger ones, an insight into WW2 and the stories of ordinary people..

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Wonderful fictional account of Denmark under Nazi occupation and the courage of the Danish people whose Jewish population almost all escaped the Holocaust.

Inspiring and very moving

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