Finally Cambridge, Massachusetts, when my husband left the service and entered Harvard Law School (another daughter another son) and then to Maine - by now with four children under the age of five in tow. I had just turned nineteen - just finished my sophomore year in college - when I married a Naval officer and continued the odyssey that military life requires. High school was back in New York City, but by the time I went to college (Brown University in Rhode Island), my family was living in Washington, D.C. I was born in Hawaii, moved from there to New York, spent the years of World War II in my mother’s hometown: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and from there went to Tokyo when I was eleven. I was a solitary child who lived in the world of books and my own vivid imagination.īecause my father was a career military officer - an Army dentist - I lived all over the world. That left me in-between, and exactly where I wanted most to be: on my own.

Little brother Jon was the only boy and had interests that he shared with Dad together they were always working on electric trains and erector sets and later, when Jon was older, they always seemed to have their heads under the raised hood of a car. My older sister, Helen, was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to please. 'I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three. Jessica Grose wrote in a November 2022 New York Times essay entitled 'This Perfect Mother-Daughter Read Holds a Powerful Lesson for Fighting Antisemitism': “ Number the Stars is particularly relevant to our family, and to this moment.' As School Library Journal put 'Readers are taken to the very heart of Annemarie's experience, and, through her eyes, come to understand the true meaning of bravery.'

A modern classic of historical fiction, Number the Stars has won generations of fans and continues to speak to today's readers. The heroism of an entire nation reminds us that there was pride and human decency in the world even during a time of terror and war. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, nearly seven thousand people, across the sea to Sweden. As the German troops begin their campaign to 'relocate' all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family. The unforgettable Newbery Medal–winning novel from Lois Lowry.

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