Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry

Difficulty: Challenging

NUMBER THE STARS

These people should be honored for such bravery, like little Annemarie Johansen of Copenhagen. This book is a historical fiction book, and one of my favorites. It won a Newbery Award.

Number the Stars is about a girl named Annemarie Jonasen who is growing up in World War II, and her best friend is a Jew.Then, their friends, the Rosens, are endangered. Mr. and Mrs. Rosen leave their daughter, Ellen, with the Johansens hoping that she can pass as their daughter until safe voyage to Sweden can be arranged for all the Rosens. Lois Lowry was born in Hawaii but moved to New York and stayed there through World War II. Then when she was 11, she moved to Tokyo. She also wrote the Anastasia series. She says about her books, "My books have varied in content and style. Yet it seems that all of them deal, essentially, with the same general theme: the importance of human connections. A Summer to Die, my first book, was a highly fictionalized retelling of the early death of my sister, and of the effect of such a loss on a family. Number the Stars, set in a different culture and era, tells the same story: that of the role that we humans play in the lives of our fellow beings."

So I’d recommend this book to anyone who loooooooves reading. Hope you love it!!!!

REVIEW BY DANIELLE

» Lois Lowry Website

Note: This book is available in our Library.