Alan and Naomi

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Summary: A GREAT Book
Review: Alan and Naomi is a great book. I recommend it to kids who are studying the Holocaust, because it shows you how some people were affected by the Holocaust. This book has wonderful characters and they are described in great detail. It also is a real page turner, because you are always wondering what is going to happen next. It has a very sad ending that is very dramatic. This book Alan and Naomi is a funny,sad and an exciting book, so I hope that you read it.

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Summary: This book is exquisite!
Review: At our school we are required to tell about one extra credit book every six weeks. This was on my extra credit list, so I just ordered it from another library, not really expecting that much. But boy, was I wrong!
I was witness to young Alan trying to help Naomi, a terrified young girl who locks herself deep inside after her father is beaten to death in front of her for making maps that led Jews to freedom. I rejoiced with him as he slowly made progress until Naomi seemed to totally braek free of her shell and enter the big world. A little cautious, perhaps, but she was really there. It was totally easy to fall in love with Naomi. Her extremely intelligent, sweet mind was so refreshing. She is lively, and so much fun! "Crazy Cat" became Alan's best friend, caught up with the school year's class in only two weeks, and Alan and she shared everything. Alan learns why when she first came and wasn't quite in her right mind she spent all her time shredding paper. When her father had been killed, she and him had been shredding his secret maps and flushing them down in the toilet so that the Gestapo would have no reason to harm him. They failed to make it, and Naomi blamed herself. Then one day a cruel boy from school called Alan a "dirty Jew" and they got into a fight. What happened as a consequence to Naomi's mind was so sad it almost made me cry. Read it!
This book makes you really see the fear and loss that Hitler and the Nazis brought. It is really a touching story.

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Summary: A book that has stayed with me
Review: I got and read this book the year it came out, translated into Norwegian, well over ten years ago. It is the only book I have ever read more than once, as the story griped me and captivated me in a big way. We meet the happy boy Alan, as he one day stumbles over Naomi, who has moved in to the block of flats where he lives. We follow their friendship as it gradually evolves. Alan is to begin with much more interested in playing base ball in the street with the rest of the guys, but is told by his mother to look after the fragile and disturbed Naomi. Horrors from the WW II has scarred her mind and soul, but Alan finds a way of getting through to her. How it all goes and ends is quietly moving and gripping, written in a wonderful way. I have never forgotten it. I truely recommend this book for any person who likes to read, who has been told to read something by teachers or parents (and who will be surprised at how easy read this one is) or simply someone who is looking for a good story.

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Summary: Should be required reading in all schools
Review: I read this book way back in sixth grade and recently remembered it and how great it really was. I can't really add much more to what's already been said about this wonderful and touching book. I'd even go so far as to say this ranks right up there with "The Diary of Anne Frank" in literature dealing with the Holocaust and its repercussions. If you've read Anne Frank and haven't read this, do so now!

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Summary: Should be required reading in all schools
Review: I read this book way back in sixth grade and recently remembered it and how great it really was. I can't really add much more to what's already been said about this wonderful and touching book. I'd even go so far as to say this ranks right up there with "The Diary of Anne Frank" in literature dealing with the Holocaust and its repercussions. If you've read Anne Frank and haven't read this, do so now!

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Summary: READ THIS NOW!!!
Review: Just stop everything you are doing this second and read "Alan and Naomi" now!!! This book is true to life and people. Between Alan's conflict of wanting to be "one of the gang" and Naomi's ever lasting memory of the Nazi invasion in France, I could not put this book down. Myron Levoy stays very real and down to earth in his writing, and the ending is just the way it should to put a little spice into the book. Now, get up out of your chair and read it!!!

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Summary: a wonderful catching story
Review: Reviewer: betty
"Alan and Naomi" by Myron Levoy is a wonderful touching book which I wish to strongly recommend to all people who like reading a good book.



The book tells the story about this Jewish girl Naomi who
survived the Holocaust during WO II. She witnessed her
father beat to death by the Gestapo and she is terribly
traumatised from that day on. She fled with her mother to
New York were they moved into the Bronx.
Alan's parents (Jewish family as well) want him to play with
Naomi in the hope she gets better because all she does is tearing
up pieces of paper all day. It is a miracle that Allan manages to make contact with Naomi by using a puppet while talking and she really makes progress so that she is even able to go to school. Alan is ashamed of his friendship with Naomi because the boys in the neighbourhood call her "Crazy Cat" because of her strange behaviour. Another theme in the book is the segregation of people with different religious believes because Allan's parents are opposing against his friendship with Shaun because he is a Catholic. Alan and Shaun stop being best friends when Shaun blames him for not sharing Naomi's secrets with him. One day Alan is beaten up by a couple of violent boys on his way to school. Naomi is with him and she has to witness the beating up which reminds her of the beating up of her father which causes a mental break down. Her family decides to take her to a mental institution because they see no other way for her to get cured. Shaun helps Allan to stands up against his teasers and they make up again.

This book describes in a very catching way the suffering children have to endure when they have been witnessing the cruelties of war.






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Summary: A true tale
Review: some people dont understand how bad life was during the war. this story explains in depth how hitler could take charge of such innocent people and charge them with crimes they didnt commit. a boy discovers his friendship for a harmless girl could be more then just for the adults and opens her mind to the world. this story shows me we should appreciate life and help anyone we can.

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Summary: This was a great book!
Review: This was a fantastic book! It's about a typical boy living in the city, whose life is suddenly changed. A young girl and her mother move into the appartment building where he's living, and it rocks his world forever. She is one of the many people who have escaped Hitlar, and the memory of her father being beaten to death in front of her eyes has haunted her ever since it happened. Alan must help her out of these hard time, and within Naomi, he finds a friend he thought he could never have.

I loved this book, it was so touching I even cried. If you want to consider yourself a serious reader, read this book.

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Summary: Alan and Naomi
Review: We had to read this book in school. I thoguht that it would really stink... but I was very wrong. I read the whole thing in a night and I really loved it. It made me really think about what my teacher was trying to tell us. Innocent people were changed forever by the Holocaust. Alan and Naomi become friends and then... (read to find out!)