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Summary: Number The Stars
Review: The book Number the Stars is a great book. It's about German Soldiers invading Copenhagen & capturing Jewish people. So this girl named Annemarie Johansen & her family help Jewish people escape. I think this is a sad but wonderful book. I would recommend the book to people who have not read it before. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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Summary: A Must-Read For Kids, Especially Girls, aged 9-13!!!!
Review: The enthralling touching story of two friends, Anne-Marie Johansen and Ellen Rosen. Ellen is Jewish;she is an only child. Anne-Marie is Gentile;she has a younger sister named Kirsti and an older sister who died, Lise (pronounced Lee-See). This book tells about the murders in the Holocaust, about the friendship in life, and about how much courage many ordinary people have. It is also about how horrible it is to live in fear, but in a show-not-tell way. The end has many plot twists- thrilling, appy, upsetting, tragic, but ALWAYS interesting. You do NOT want to pass this wonderful Holocaust-themed children's book by.
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Summary: Number the stars
Review: I enjoyed this book. I found it very exciting and interesting. This Book Number The Stars is about a girl and her friend. Her friend is Jewish and her family gets called up to go to a concentration camp. This is about the struggle to stay away from the Nazis. I got glued to the book and I think you will to because you are wondering throughout this book will the girl survive or get sent to a concentration camp. Even though this book is not true, parts of it are real. I found it very interesting to have an idea about what these people had to go through. I really liked this book and found it very enthralling.By Sam
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Summary: Number the Stars Review by Ol'ga
Review: Dear Author,
The story Number The Stars was great. I really liked it. My favorite character is Annemarie. She was ten years old. And my second favorite character is Ellen Rosen, that gets taken away by the soldiers. I think a ten year old girl that has to save her best friend's life is so cool. I would give this book all five stars. This might be one of my favorite books. Good bye now.
Sincerly.
Ol'ga
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Summary: Jane's Thoughts on Number the Stars: Bravo Lois Lowery!( :
Review: The story is about a girl named Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen. They are both coping with the challenges of WWII in Copenhagen,Denmark. Ellen is Jewish. Annemarie,her mother, and sister Kirsti are in charge of getting Ellen to safety in Sweden! Will they make it in time?
I like how Lois Lowery made the story exciting by putting Annemarie and Ellen in dangerous situations, for example, being found by Nazi Soldiers. In Order to survive they had to be brave and tell the Nazi's that they were not Jews(which is partly a lie)
The author could of possibly improved the story by making their times together more happy. So much sadness made a very distressing time period for everyone.
For me the message of the book is always come through for your friends especially if you believe it is the right thing to do.
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Summary: Melissa's review of Number The Stars
Review: If you want to know how people were treated during World War II this is the book to read I recamend this to everybody that I know even my old teahcer's.I would choose this over almost any thing that i've ever read but sense I don't know what kind of person you are so I can't guarantee that this book is for you.I could harly put the book down it was so good I had to keep reading but there are some confusing and unfair parts in the book well atleast i thout so.Also there we're some sad parts in the book too.Well Thanks for your time.From your friend, Melissa
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Summary: It Was A GREAT Book!
Review: I thought this was a GREAT book. I couldn't set the book down! I encourage you to read this book becouse even though I don't like Histoical Fiction this book kept me reading. You should read it and then you will know all aout why I couldn't put that book down. I hope you will read it.
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Summary: Righteous Gentiles
Review: My parents are Holocaust Survivors, and when my 10-year old daughter brought this book home from school, it piqued my curiousity. Then, after she finished it, I read it. Although I have read a lot about the Holocaust, even I learned some new things from this book, like about the handkerchiefs soaked with chemicals so that the Nazis' dogs couldn't detect human scent (so that the Jews hidden in boats wouldn't be detected).
More importantly, this book was so well-written that I wept through the entire second half of it. I have always deeply felt that rescuers of the Jews were really angels wrapped in human bodies; what they did was one of the most humanitarian acts in history. There is a Holocaust Museum in Israel, Yad V'Shem. There is a long path to the entrance of the Museum lined with trees, called the Avenue of the Righteous Gentiles. Beneath each tree is a plaque, and, with one exception, each plaque is dedicated to a different individual who helped save a Jewish life during the Holocaust. After I finished this book, I realized why the only plaque not dedicated to an individual is dedicated to an entire nation: the people of Denmark. May they always be remembered and honored for what they have done.
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Summary: A very interesting book......
Review: I loved the book, Iit could happen in real life. The book is about a girl [Anamarie] and her best friend. [Ellen] The story takes place in Copenhagen during world war two. Ellen is jewish, Anamarie is not, and like the Jews of Denmark were being relocated, then somehow Ellen and her family must escape to a place were they wont be taken away.....
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Summary: This book is worth the time it takes to read
Review: Setting: a remote village in Denmark Characters: Annemarie-the main character (Christian), Ellen-Annemarie's best friend (Jew), Lisa Annemarie's older sister who died, Kristen- Annemarie's younger sister and, uncle henrik-a fisherman on the coast of denmark.
Plot: Annemarie comes home from school one day with her friend Ellen and her sister Kristen. As they raced to the corner they were stopped by a German solder with the word "halt". Luckily the solder let them pass but the next day they had to take a different rout to school. A few days later the list of all the members of the synagogue was stolen and Ellen's family had to hide. Ellen lived with Annemarie's family. If the Germans checked the house Ellen was Lisa who had really died. Ellen's parents were taken some where else to hide witch was kept secret.
A few days later Annemarie's family took a train to her uncle Hedrick's house on the cost of Denmark. Henrik was a fisher man who owned a boat. The next night they pretended to have a funeral for some lost aunt. Many people were there to pay there last respects including Ellen's parents. When German solders showed up questioning the gathering of people they asked why the coffin was closed but Annemarie's mom said that the person died of a disease that could still be transferred. Once the solders left they opened the coffin and in it were blankets and other clothing. It turns out that the people there were Jews that uncle Hedrick was going to smuggle to Sweden on his boat. They would have to make a trip through the woods to the dock in the darkness to get o the boat uncle Hedrick had a very important package that he needed. But in the morning Annemarie realized that he had left it be hind. She put it in to a basket with some food and if she got caught she was just bringing her uncle his lunch. When she got there she found that her uncle had a secret compartment built in for hiding the people. But the Germans had been using dogs to find people. The package was just a simple handkerchief but it was needed for Hedrick to get the Jews to Sweden because the handkerchief contained a substance that attracted the dogs to it and then one they sniffed it the substance temporarily ruins the dog's sense of smell and the boat checks out just fine. After the war Ellen and her family come back to Denmark and live happily ever after.
Opinion: I thought this book was great it was so exciting. I would recommend it to anyone.
Theme: always trust your friends.
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