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Available
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Publication
Disney-Hyperion (2010), 144 pages
Description
The author's mother's 1938 autograph book filled with inscriptions from family and friends is the inspiration for a collection of narrative poems about life in Nazi Germany for a Jewish family trying to escape the horrors.
Media reviews
(starred review)
"Artfully weaving together her mother’s poesiealbum (autograph/poetry album), diary, and her own verse, Levy crafts a poignant portrait of her Jewish mother’s life in 1938 Nazi Germany that crackles with adolescent vitality."
(starred review)
Awards
Sydney Taylor Book Award (Mass Import -- Pending Differentiation)
Utah Beehive Book Award (Nominee — Poetry — 2013)
Parents' Choice Book Award (2010)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
CCBC Choices (2011)
Language
Lexile
910L
User reviews
LibraryThing member prkcs
This book tells the true story of what happened to a 12-year-old girl named Jutta (Debbie Levy’s mother) in 1938. Actual entries in a posiealbum (autograph book) serve as stepping stones in a crucial year in history before WWII.
LibraryThing member lilibrarian
A translation and editing of a memory book and diary kept by a young girl living in Hamburg as the Nazi's Nuremberg Laws took effect.
ISBN
1423129016 / 9781423129011