Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Number The Stars

The book  Number The Stars by Lois Lowry [ISBN 0440403278] is about 10-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her family who risk their lives and shelter a Jewish girl named Ellen Rosen during the 1943 German occupation of Denmark.  Ellen  has a Star of David necklace. As the Nazis enter the house She rips it off and throws it across the room. 

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