Is It Night or Day?
Books | Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Holocaust
4.1
Fern Schumer Chapman
It's 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move from the tiny German village she's lived in all her life to a place that seems as foreign as the moon: Chicago, Illinois. And she will be doing it alone. This dramatic and chilling novel about one girl's escape from Hitler's Germany was inspired by the experiences of the author's mother, one of twelve hundred children rescued by Americans as part of the One Thousand Children project.This title has Common Core connections.Is It Night or Day? is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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Author
Fern Schumer Chapman
Pages
224
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published Date
2010-03-16
ISBN
1429934131 9781429934138
Ratings
Google: 5
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"It is such a good book if you are ok with more mature topics. It has the feeling of friendship, loss and much more! I found it a great read!"
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