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I will definitely recommend this book to historical, historical fiction lovers. Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Read Online Download. Great book, Number the Stars pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone. After an encounter with two German soldiers, Annemarie and Ellen are much more careful.

Later on, it turns out that for unknown reasons the Germans are 'relocating' Denmark's Jews. At the synagogue, the Nazis have taken the names and addresses of all the Jewish people in Copenhagen. Ellen and her family are Jewish. Ellen must stay with the Johansens, pretending to be Lise, even though she is half the age of the real Lise.

Soldiers enter the Johansens' apartment at 4 in the morning, thinking that the Rosens are 'Paying a visit' to the Johansens. If the soldiers had seen it, they would have known Ellen was a Jew. The soldiers see Ellen's dark hair and become suspicious because the Johansens have blond hair, and Ellen has brown hair. Luckily, Lise had brown hair as an infant. Johansen shows the Nazis a picture of baby Lise, and they leave. Johansen, Annemarie, Ellen, and Kirsti leave the next morning to go to Uncle Henrik's house by the sea.

Sweden, a Nazi-free country, can be seen from Uncle Henrik's house. Before they had gone to his house, Mr. Johansen had spoken in code to Henrik. When they get there, Henrik seems like his ordinary self. A huge casket is placed in the middle of the living room. Annemarie knows that there is no Aunt Birte, but learns from her uncle that it is easier to be brave if you do not know something, so she does not tell Ellen the truth about her 'aunt'.

Later on, many people come to mourn 'Aunt Birte', to Annemarie's puzzlement. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. I know- I can't believe I'm just now reading this. What kind of a children's librarian am I?

This is a nice little story about a family who smuggles some Jewish friends out of Denmark during the Nazi occupation in I always avoided reading this because it looked depressing, but it wasn't. It wasn't a light story, but it didn't have the horrible scenes that fill most holocaust books. However, the author's note at the end affected me deeply. I don't know a lot about my Danish heritage- I've alw In quick strokes, Lowry establishes the setting and characters and foreshadows Annemarie's subsequent encounters with soldiers, each of which increases the tension.

The symbol of stars weaves in and out: When the crowd of escaping Jews gathers, they are comforted with the words of Psalm 'O praise the Lord Please visit my blog www. It's historical fiction but highlights the horror of WWII. It's a meaningful story that demonstrates what friends will do for each other when in need. This is an easy chapter book for middle grade students and older. I have recently re-read it as an adult and was captivated once again.

I loved this book. I didn't know the Danish Resistance had smuggled about 7, Jews during World War II, transporting them to Sweden hidden in private boats, at the risk of being arrested and killed by the Nazis.

Read it along with Scribd audio to improve my English learning. Shelves: nazis, historical, young-adult, 4-star, children, classics, classics-i-have-finally-conquered, ebook, got-in, read-in I had to read this one to fit a challenge I was taking part in — had to find a book set in Denmark, and my options for that were slim.

It mainly focuses on Annemarie Johnansen and her parents helping another family during the dreadful Nazi period in Apparently her uncle is part of an underground support group for Jews in the area as well. Despite it being such a dark perio Number the Stars Bantam Doubleday Dell,, pp. Her laughter stopped.

Her heart seemed to skip a beat. When I first began to read Number the Stars a few years ago, I found that I could hardly get passed page three without dozing off. Recently, I had a friend tell me I should give the boo Yes the target audience is young adults but I as an old adult found it an amazing and educational story of the Nazi occupation of Denmark.

From the Afterword, a part of a letter written by a young man from the Resistance to his mother, on the eve of his execution: 'You must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudice one. A delicately written and touchingly poignant book. Several moments made my eyes well-up how I loved that dear Papa! This combined with the writing style creates a deeply resonating story of heroism and the reality of being normal in a world gone mad.

This is a story of ordinary people doing extrao I'm serious, it's like this book and 'Summer of my German Soldier' were written with the same purpose in mind: educate students about the Holocaust in just about the most boring way possible.