HarperCollins Children's Modern Classics #: Number the Stars

HarperCollins Children's Modern Classics #: Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 176pg
17 Mar 2022 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9780008523336
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This beautiful HarperCollins Children' s Modern Classics edition is perfect for every bookshelf. It is 1943 and life in Copenhagen is becoming complicated for ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen. There are food shortages and curfews and soldiers on every corner. But it is even worse for her Jewish best friend Ellen as the Nazis continue their brutal campaign of terror. With Ellen in grave danger, Annemarie must summon all her courage to help stage a daring escape. Inspired by true events of the Second World War, this Newbery Award-winning novel is a vivid and very human story of friendship and survival. Complete your library with HarperCollins Children' s Classics.
"A moving and important novel. " John Boyne, bestselling author of ' The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' ". . . a decent, brave and likeable heroine who is caught by accident in harsh political affairs. NUMBER THE STARS is a simple, but effective tale. ' - Times Educational Supplement
Lois Lowry, author of over twenty novels and twice winner of the Newbery Medal (for The Giver and Number the Stars), was born on 20 March 1937 in Hawaii. Her father was an Army dentist and the family lived all over the world. Now divorced, she lives in West Cambridge with her dog, Bandit, and spends weekends in her nineteenth-century farmhouse in New Hampshire.

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