Mapping the bones /
Yolen, Jane,
Mapping the bones / Jane Yolen. - 417 pages : map ; 22 cm
In Poland in the 1940s, the lives of twins Chaim and Gittel feel like a fairy tale torn apart as they must rely on each other to endure life in a ghetto and the horrors of a concentration camp where they lose everything but each other. 1942 Poland. For twins Chaim and Gittel, life in the ghetto-- and then the concentration camp-- feels feel like a fairy tale with evil witches and dangerous ovens looming on the horizon. They find light through Chaim's poetry and the love they have for each other. As the brother and sister lose everything but each other, Chaim's words become a beacon of memory so that the children and grandchildren of survivors will never forget the atrocities that happened during the Holocaust.
A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.)
9780399257780 0399257780
Penguin Group USA, Order Processing Dept 120 Woodbine st, Bergenfield, NJ, USA, 07621 SAN 201-3975
2016059474
Brothers and sisters--Juvenile fiction.
Twins--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Juvenile fiction.
Concentration camps--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Poland--History--1918-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction.
Mapping the bones / Jane Yolen. - 417 pages : map ; 22 cm
In Poland in the 1940s, the lives of twins Chaim and Gittel feel like a fairy tale torn apart as they must rely on each other to endure life in a ghetto and the horrors of a concentration camp where they lose everything but each other. 1942 Poland. For twins Chaim and Gittel, life in the ghetto-- and then the concentration camp-- feels feel like a fairy tale with evil witches and dangerous ovens looming on the horizon. They find light through Chaim's poetry and the love they have for each other. As the brother and sister lose everything but each other, Chaim's words become a beacon of memory so that the children and grandchildren of survivors will never forget the atrocities that happened during the Holocaust.
A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.)
9780399257780 0399257780
Penguin Group USA, Order Processing Dept 120 Woodbine st, Bergenfield, NJ, USA, 07621 SAN 201-3975
2016059474
Brothers and sisters--Juvenile fiction.
Twins--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Juvenile fiction.
Concentration camps--Poland--Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Poland--History--1918-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction.