Yellow Star

by Jennifer Roy

Hardcover, 2006

Publication

Two Lions (2006), Edition: First Edition, 242 pages

Description

From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.

Awards

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award (Honor — Fiction & Poetry — 2006)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Middle Grade — 2009)
Triple Crown Awards (Classic (Runner-Up/Honor Book) — 2009)
Great Stone Face Book Award (Nominee — 2008)
Sydney Taylor Book Award (Winner — 2007)
Utah Beehive Book Award (Nominee — Children's Fiction — 2008)
National Jewish Book Award (Finalist — Children's Literature — 2006)
Sasquatch Book Award (Nominee — 2010)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 2009)
Iowa Teen Award (Nominee — 2009)
Nēnē Award (Nominee — 2008)
Grand Canyon Reader Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2009)
Rhode Island Teen Book Award (Nominee — 2008)

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2006

Pages

242

Physical description

242 p.; 7.25 inches

ISBN

9780761452775

DDC/MDS

813.6
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