Book Summary
Number the Stars is a book about innocence and how some girls were trying to keep theirs during a horrible time. Annamarie and her sister, Kristi along with Annamarie's friend, Ellen Rosen, are the main characters. Nazi's have occupied Denmark, and Jewish members of the community had started disappearing. Annamarie's parents help Ellen's family to escape to Sweden. Annamarie's oldest sister had died, and as the Nazi's were checking for Jews that were being hidden, Ellen was passed off as the third sister. The three girls travel out of Denmark and to see their Uncle. They were not aware that their Uncle was helping the Denmark Underground resistance and helping Jews escape. While they were there, they try to make the most out of their situation and help as much as they could. Annamarie's mother falls and breaks her ankle and Annamarie takes up the cause to help a boat of Jewish people make it across the strait.
Number the Stars is a book about innocence and how some girls were trying to keep theirs during a horrible time. Annamarie and her sister, Kristi along with Annamarie's friend, Ellen Rosen, are the main characters. Nazi's have occupied Denmark, and Jewish members of the community had started disappearing. Annamarie's parents help Ellen's family to escape to Sweden. Annamarie's oldest sister had died, and as the Nazi's were checking for Jews that were being hidden, Ellen was passed off as the third sister. The three girls travel out of Denmark and to see their Uncle. They were not aware that their Uncle was helping the Denmark Underground resistance and helping Jews escape. While they were there, they try to make the most out of their situation and help as much as they could. Annamarie's mother falls and breaks her ankle and Annamarie takes up the cause to help a boat of Jewish people make it across the strait.
APA Reference of Book
Lowry, L. (1989). Number the stars. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Impressions
I really like this book. My mother grew up during Nazi occupied Germany and I have heard some of the stories first hand. This book, and many like this, are hard to read, because of the horrors that were committed to a race of people. The story is well written and shows the compassionate side of people during troubled times. This book might be hard for the younger grades, but 5th and up should be able to understand the story and understand why we must learn our past so we will never repeat it again.
I really like this book. My mother grew up during Nazi occupied Germany and I have heard some of the stories first hand. This book, and many like this, are hard to read, because of the horrors that were committed to a race of people. The story is well written and shows the compassionate side of people during troubled times. This book might be hard for the younger grades, but 5th and up should be able to understand the story and understand why we must learn our past so we will never repeat it again.
Professional Review
The author of the Anastasia books as well as more serious fiction (Rabbi Starkey, 1987) offers her first historical fiction--a story about the escape of the Jews from Denmark in 1943. Five years younger than Lisa in Matas' book (below), Annemarie Johansen has, at ten, known three years of Nazi occupation. Though ever cautious and fearful of the ubiquitous soldiers, she is largely unaware of the extent of the danger around her; the Resistance kept even its participants safer by telling them as little as possible, and Annemarie has never been told that her older sister Lise died in its service. When the Germans plan to round up the Jews, the Johansens take in Annemarie's friend, Ellen Rosen, and pretend she is their daughter; later, they travel to Uncle Hendrik's house on the coast, where the Rosens and other Jews are transported by fishing boat to Sweden. Apart from Lise's offstage death, there is little violence here; like Annemarie, the reader is protected from the full implications of events--but will be caught up in the suspense and menace of several encounters with soldiers and in Annemarie's courageous run as a courier on the night of the escape. The book concludes with the Jews' return, after the war, to homes well kept for them by their neighbors. A deftly told story that dramatizes how Danes appointed themselves bodyguards--not only for their king, who was in the habit of riding alone in Copenhagen but for their Jews.
NUMBER THE STARS by Lois Lowry | Kirkus Reviews. (1989, March 15). Retrieved from https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/lois-lowry/number-the-stars-2/
Library Uses
This book would be a great resource to add to the lessons on Europe and the WW's.This would be a great book to read and compare to Annie Franks Diary, to see how the lives differed and how they were the same in so many ways.
This book would be a great resource to add to the lessons on Europe and the WW's.This would be a great book to read and compare to Annie Franks Diary, to see how the lives differed and how they were the same in so many ways.
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