Good Night, Maman - Brossura

Mazer, Norma Fox

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ISBN 10: 0152061738 ISBN 13: 9780152061739

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010

Riassunto

Karin Levi’s world of family, school, and friends is torn apart when the German army occupies Paris in June of 1940. Karin and her brother, Marc, like Jews all over Europe, find themselves on the run, seeking safety wherever they can find it. When Marc obtains two coveted places aboard a ship bound for the United States, Karin knows that crossing the ocean means she may never see her beloved parents again. Yet she and Marc have little choice if they are to survive. Karin’s unforgettable story--revealing the little-known world of a handful of European refugees in World War II America--tells of survival, of growing up, and of love’s ability to endure even the most extraordinary circumstances.

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Recensione

ABA's Pick of the Lists IRA Young Adults' Choice NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book "Mazer writes with a simplicity that personalizes the history for middle-school readers, yet her research is never intrusive. Twelve-year-old Karin's first-person narrative is both direct and restrained about the survivor trauma, honest about the mixture of love, guilt, and jealousy between sister and brother.—Booklist "Riveting. . . . Rather than relying on events and facts of the war and its atrocities to create sympathy, the author paints her central character's thoughts and feelings, her moments of weakness and her strength, so that the story is stirringly understated."--Kirkus Reviews

L'autore

NORMA FOX MAZER is an award-winning novelist and a faculty member in the well-respected Vermont College Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA program. Her books have received a Newbery Honor, the Christopher Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Mystery, a National Book Award nomination, and other prestigious honors. She lives in Montpelier, Vermont.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0152061738
• ISBN 13: 9780152061739
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 185