Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
Yearling (1990), Edition: Reissue, Paperback, 137 pages
Description
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Media reviews
Carousel
Jan Mark (Carousel 15, Summer 2000)
Morally speaking, Denmark had a 'good war' after it surrendered to the Nazis in 1940. Notably absent from factual and fictional tales of derring-do, the very real heroism of its civilian population is celebrated in Lowry's quiet but stirring story, based on real
Show More
events, which tell of one family's successful bid to send their Jewish friends to safety in neutral Sweden. Instead of comic-strip heroics with implausible intervention by implausible kids, she gives us a situation in which children must be included because they cannot be excluded, fearfully endangered but willing parties to an ethical struggle. The happy ending is entirely credible, even to those old enough to know what might have happened instead. Category: Older. Show Less
Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices
CCBC (Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices, 1989)
Ten-year-old Annemarie, living in occupied Denmark during World War 11, must test the limits of her own courage when she and her family assist their Jewish friends in their escape from the Nazis. Flawlessly interwoven into her personal account
Show More
are details of the historic and heroic Movement in which Denmark, as a nation, successfully resisted the attempts of the Nazis to exterminate Danish Jews. With their varying degrees of knowledge, each character represents a model of courage in a fast-paced story about individual and collective response to evil. Honor book, 1989 CCBC Newbery Discussion. CCBC Category: Fiction For Young Readers. 1989, Houghton Mifflin, , $12.95. Ages 8-12. Show Less
Awards
Texas Bluebonnet Award (Nominee — 1991)
Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Award (Nominee — 1991)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 1992)
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Honor — 1994)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Children's — 1992)
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee — 1992)
Great Stone Face Book Award (Winner — 1992)
Sydney Taylor Book Award (Winner — 1989)
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 4-8 — 1990)
National Jewish Book Award (Winner — Children's Literature — 1990)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 1992)
Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1992)
Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 1993)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1991-1992)
Newbery Medal (Medal Winner — 1990)
Nutmeg Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 1993)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee — 1991)
Bluestem Award (Nominee — 2014)
Mark Twain Readers Award (Nominee)
Sunshine State Young Reader's Award (Nominee — 1991)
Nēnē Award (Nominee — 1992, 1993, 1994)
Jane Addams Children's Book Award (Honor Book — 1990)
Golden Archer Award (Winner — 1990)
Charlotte Award (Winner — 1992)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — Chapter Books — 1992)
IBBY Honour Book (2000)
Maud Hart Lovelace Award (Nominee — 1992)
Maine Student Book Award (Winner — 1991)
CCBC Choices (1989)
NCTE Adventuring with Books: A Booklist for Pre-K—Grade 6 (10th Edition: 1988-1992)
Read Aloud Indiana Book Award (Intermediate — 1991)
Teacher Favorites Award (1989-1993)