My Bridges of Hope: Searching for Life and Love After Auschwitz

by Livia Bitton-Jackson

Hardcover, 1999

Tags

NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, World History & Culture, Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5)Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5), Reading Level-Middle (6-8)

Genres

Collection

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People

Publication

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (1999), Edition: 1st, 258 pages

Description

In 1945, after surviving a harrowing year in Auschwitz, fourteen-year-old Elli returns, along with her mother and brother, to the family home, now part of Slovakia, where they try to find a way to rebuild their shattered lives.

Subjects

Holocaust survivors
Holocaust survivors Slovakia Juvenile literature
Jewish teenagers Slovakia Juvenile literature
Jews Slovakia
Women Biography

Awards

Sydney Taylor Book Award (Mass Import -- Pending Differentiation)
NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People (2000)

Language

English

Original language

English

ISBN

0689820267 / 9780689820267

DDC/MDS

940.5318092

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