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Summary: Absorbing, frank, and serious -- all all the same time
Review: Lowry does an excellent job at absorbing the reader immediately into a story that it full of emotion and frankness. The characters are fairly believable, albeit one-dimensional. The metaphors are obvious, but enough so that most children will detect them. The text deals with the Danish Resistance, a subject that has only recently gotten the notoriety it deserves. Readers wonder along with Annemarie whether they could be heroes if such dire situations presented themselves.
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Summary: Cant put it Down
Review: I think it is a facinating book that can teach children about WW2.
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Summary: Outstanding book for 6th graders learning about courage
Review: In Number the Stars author Lois Lowry deftly describes the life of ten-year-old Annmarie Johansen who lives with her family in Nazi-occupied Denmark. Life has changed drastically for Annmarie, her family, and her best friend, Ellen. There is a war on. Nazi soldiers stand on every street corner, there are food shortages, and most traumatic of all, the Jews are being relocated. Through Annmarie's eyes, we learn about the harsh realities of war and the human suffering that took place both on a personal and international level. We also see how Annmarie gained the courage to risk her life to help others. Teachers and curriculum directors in the Boston Public Schools have been so impressed by the powerful themes in Number the Stars that they have selected it as one of six core novels for sixth graders as part of the Max Warburg Courage Curriculum. The other five novels are: Taking Sides, Maniac Magee, Bridge to Terabithia, So Far from the Bamboo Grove, and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. As with Number the Stars, each novel addresses the theme of courage--different types of courage, what it takes to act courageously, and how even small acts of courage can have enormous consequences in everyday life. As an Educational Consultant for the Courage Curriculum, I highly recommend Number the Stars. By relating to Annmarie's bravery, adolescents may broaden their understanding of war and its lasting impact on people's lives.
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Summary: What a great book!
Review: "Number the Stars" was an excellent source of education to me about the past with the Nazis and Jews and really helped me to understand more about the Resistance. Though most of the characters were ficional, the author used them in a very realistic way, also helping me to understand how difficult it was to be an ordinary person in those days. I had no knowledge of some of the facts the author presented in the story, such as the fact that no one had real coffee or butter. In the end, I thought it was a great book.
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Summary: I LOVED IT!! It was a very touching book.
Review: It was the best holocaust book I have ever read. It is a great story about how Annemarie and Ellen fight to save themselves and their familes in WWII Germany. Although their were sad parts, it sends a great message.
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Summary: Only okay. Should not have won such a prestigious award.
Review: After reading "The Giver", also by Lowry, I expected "Number the Stars" to be MUCH better than it was. ("The Giver" is my all-time favorite winner of the Newbery. Highly recommended.) "Number the Stars" is a decent, but unspectacular, book which pales in comparison to "I Am David" by Anne Holm. That story portrays the suffering of the Jews with more depth and feeling than this one. Read that instead.
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Summary: ANOTHER WONDERFUL BOOK BY LOIS LOWRY!
Review: This was a wonderful book. Although I'm not Jewish I have always had an interst in the Holocaust and in Jewish traditions. I've read all about Anne Frank and this book really brought the images of the Holocaust to life. I applaud Lois Lowry for, yet another wonderful book.
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Summary: A delight for all ages
Review: This is one of my favorite books of all time. The story is simply magical. You can feel all the emotions that this book portrays as you travel through the chapters. If you are someone intersted in what life was like for the jews back in the days of hitler this is a must read.
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Summary: A great book that deals with the horrors of the Holicaust.
Review: Number the Stars was a brilliantly written book by no other than one of my favorite authors; Lois Lowery. (author of 'Your Move J.P.' and the 'Anastasia' series) This book is of little Annemarie and her friend Ellen during the Nazi regime in there home of Denmark. Ellen's family suffers many hardships being Jewish. But, not just the Jews suffered. As little Kristi would say, there was a dreadful shortage on sugar and coffee, making it extremely difficult to make cupcakes with pink frosting. This book is written with such a realistic prespective that you feel that you are Annemarie as she runs down the dirt road to her uncle's house. This book is an extremely good to teach in a class as well as to just read on your own. And remember... history repeats itself, by being informed of the horrors of the Holocaust, we are preventing it from happening again.
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Summary: A Touching Story.
Review: It was an incredible book. It had everything that you would not have known about Jewish people and what had happened during the time when they did not want to have Jewish people at all. They told you everything about them but the author just put it in a great story. You will have to read it so you would understand why am I saying it is a great story and also learn about everything that had happened with the Jews.
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