Number the Stars

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Summary: It's the best book I've ever read in my lifetime!!
Review: I give this book a 10 because of how Annemarie was so brave of having trying to keep her best friend safe.If I were Annemarie I would be really scared.But Annemarie had a very strong heart.And I bet you feel the same way as I do about this book.Please read it! I think you will enjoy it!

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Summary: Danger and excitement are this book's middle name.
Review: I rate this book a whopping 9! I liked it because it is suspenceful and exciting. I also learned many things I never knew about the Jews and the Nazis. I learned that the Nazis actually raided the homes of the Jews. Through Annemarie's eyes we see the Danish Resistance and how she and her family manage to get through their troubles. This is a brave tale of herism told by a young ten- year-old girl in 1943. She lived a ordinary life of home and school in Copenhagen, Denmark. With many food shortages they did not know where their next meal was coming from; and to add to that, there were Nazis soldiers everywhere they went. Annemarie, as a young girl, figured she would just have to live with this and didn't need any bravery to account for it. Until one day when Annemarie's courage was called upon.

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Summary: Teaches important lessons.
Review: In this book, Number the Stars, Lois Lowry took many of the true facts of history and the treatment of the Jews and made them into a wonderful novel about characters based on real people. Annemarie, a young girl in this book, was suprised to find out the truth about how her Jewish friend was treated and forced from her home. Before she knew it, she and her parents were leading another family down a dark path trying to get to safety, trying to escape the hateful soliders. It was about how one family gave their all for their friends' safety. Getting to the safe land was just as important to the people being saved as to the people who were helping them get there. This book really taught me the importances of friendship and bravery.

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Summary: A Great Book!!!!!!
Review: The book number the Stars by Losi Lowry was great. It was great becuse it showed views of diffrent people in the same situation. Annemarie, her sister, and Annemarie's friend, Ellen began to learn the importance of friendship through good and bad times. When Ellen's family needs help becuse they, like many Jewish families, need to flee from the soliders rule. Annemaries's family helps Ellen's family run and hide. The girls stay friends and are not that aware of what big of risk they are taking until near the end of the escape when they were saying there final goodbyes. This book took place in 1943 in Denmark. The Nazi soliders wanted rule and controll but the Jewish people and their friends over came the enmy by sticking togethere and fighting back.

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Summary: Scared , petrefied how could the Nazis do that????
Review: During World War II the Nazis were looking for Jews everywhere. Ellen Rosen's parents wnt to hide, while Ellen went to her best friend Annamarie's house because it was safer there. Ellen Rosen pretended to be Annamaries sister. It was late at night. Not a sound to be heard when the Nazis burst open the door and invaded the Johansons house the Nazis rushed up the stairs and were looking all over for Jews. Ellen and Annamarie were petrified of the Nazis and were praying that the Nazis wouldnt find them.When the Nazis came into came into Annamaries room Ellen and annamarie trembeled with fear. Ellen ripped her Jewissh star necklace off under the covers. The Nazis yelled and screamed out all sorts of questions. Annamarie and Ellen answered the questions the best that they could while shaking and shivering from being terefied of the Nazis. Finally the Nazis left their house. They were so releived that Ellen had not given herself away. That scene of the book was my favorite because it made me so excited and anxious to see if the Nazis were going to find out who Ellen really was. I think Number The Stars is a fabulous book because it shows how prejiduced people can be. It gives the readers a sense it is to be different. It also makes the readers realizer how tough and hard the war was and what it took to survive.

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Summary: Compelling and suspenseful, yet very informative.
Review: Annemarie Johansen was only ten when she realized what was going on. It was 1943 when the Holocaust had reached Copenhagen, Denmark, and spread the plague of Nazis all over the country. Annemarie, being a Christian, did not have to worry about the Holocaust until her encounter with a Nazi while racing her Jewish best friend, Ellen Rosen. Annemarie had two sisters, one named Kristi, and one named Lise, who died. One day Mrs. Rosen, Ellen's mother, had sent Ellen to the Johansen's house for a sleepover, but little did they know, Ellen was in serious danger. She would be staying there for a while so her parents could escape from the wrath of the Holocaust and send for her when they reached Sweden. To avoid suspicious Nazis, they pretended that Ellen was Lise, Annemarie's deceased sister. They went to Annemarie's Uncle Henrik's house on the sea. Now Inge, Annemarie's mother, is beginning to wish she considered this task before she accepted it. There are many good times, and many bad. But underneath it all is an important moral: There are four key things to make up a promise--strength, courage, hope and loyalty.

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Summary: My Grandmother knows...
Review: My grandmother Ruth and my great aunt Anne had told be about what happened; Ruth was 13, and Anne 9. It was as accurete as they can remember. We are not jews, but another family near them was. They hid in the floor board under Anne's room. Nazi's only serched once, but my Grandmother said it was the most frightningist thing ever!

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Summary: It's a great book that brings a sad story to life!
Review: Annemarie Johansen and her good friend Ellen Rosen grow up durring World War II and the Holocaust. Annemarie is just learning about what is going on. But Ellen already knows for she is involved. As the book evolves Annemarie is keeping Ellen in hiding. Annemarie and her family along with a couple other people use a dangerous procedure to send the Rosens and some other Jewish friends off to Sweden to be free. In the beginning of the book it is said that Annemarie's older sister Lise was killed, but she never knew how or why. This really botherd Annemarie throughout the book for she was so curious to know what had happened. Not till the end is it revealed how Lise died and the reason. At that point Annemarie begins to grow up for now she is aware of whats going on around her and nothing is really hidden anymore!

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Summary: Simply a wonderful book
Review: After reading this book, I wished I was a kid again so that I might have experienced this at the age it was intended. To tell of the "human" side of the Holocaust cushions the blow for young people who read about the horrors of it with little or no basis for its effect upon the daily lives of Jewish and Christians. While not meant to distract students from the cruelity of the Holocaust, Number the Stars introduces it to young readers on a level they can comprehend and build upon.

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Summary: A good book to learn about the Holocaust.
Review: I'm a 6th grade girl who loves to read. Number the Stars is about two young girls in the time of the Holocaust. One is Jewish and the other isn't. They are best friends and so are their mothers. I don't want to spoil the story for you so I won't tell you anything else about the book. I liked this book alot. If you are learning about the Holocaust this is a good book to read. Or if you are doing a book report you should read this book. In this book I never knew what was going to happen next. I never wanted to put this book down.