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Number the Stars: A Newbery Award Winner Hardcover - 1989

by Lois Lowry

This Newbery Medal Book describes how a ten-year-old Danish girl's bravery is tested when her best friend is threatened by Nazis in 1943.


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Number the Stars is a work of historical fiction about the Holocaust during World War II  by Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry. Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is the central character, who lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1943 and was caught up in the events surrounding the rescue of the Danish Jews. 

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This Newbery Medal Book describes how a ten-year-old Danish girl's bravery is tested when her best friend is threatened by Nazis in 1943.

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The unforgettable Newbery Medal-winning novel from Lois Lowry. As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen's family takes in Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family.

Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, nearly seven thousand people, across the sea to Sweden. The heroism of an entire nation reminds us that there was pride and human decency in the world even during a time of terror and war.

A modern classic of historical fiction, Number the Stars has won generations of fans and continues to speak to today's readers. Jessica Grose wrote in a November 2022 New York Times essay entitled "This Perfect Mother-Daughter Read Holds a Powerful Lesson for Fighting Antisemitism" "Number the Stars is particularly relevant to our family, and to this moment."

As School Library Journal put it: "Readers are taken to the very heart of Annemarie's experience, and, through her eyes, come to understand the true meaning of bravery."

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  • Title Number the Stars: A Newbery Award Winner
  • Author Lois Lowry
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Clarion Books, Boston
  • Date 1989-04-24
  • ISBN 9780395510605 / 0395510600
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.09 x 5.78 x 0.6 in (20.55 x 14.68 x 1.52 cm)
  • Ages 10 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 5 - 7
  • Reading level 670
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Scandinavian
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Event: Summer Vacation Reading
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Friendship
    • Topical: Holocaust
    • Topical: Inspiration
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Friendship
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88037134
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

"The whole work is seamless, compelling, and memorable—impossible to put down; difficult to forget."
The Horn Book

Citations

  • School Library Journal, 09/01/1997, Page 0
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