Number The Stars Essential Modern Classics — Lois Lowry

They plan to arrest all the Danish Jews They plan to take them away And we have been told that they may come tonight It is 1943 and life in Copenhagen is becoming complicated for Annemarie There are food shortages and curfews and soldiers on every corner But it is even worse for her Jewish best friend Ellen as the Nazis continue their brutal campaign With Ellen s life in danger Annemarie must summon all her courage to help stage a daring escape

They plan to arrest all the Danish Jews They plan to take them away And we have been told that they may come tonight It is 1943 and life in Copenhagen is becoming complicated for Annemarie There are food shortages and curfews and soldiers on every corner But it is even worse for her Jewish best friend Ellen as the Nazis continue their brutal campaign With Ellen s life in danger Annemarie must summon all her courage to help stage a daring escape Tanıtım Bülteninden

Lois Lowry was born in Hawaii but because her father was in the army and her husband in the navy she lived in New York Pennsylvania Tokyo Rhode Island California Connecticut South Carolina Massachusetts and Maine where she began her writing career The main subject of her 30 books is human connections She wrote her first novel A Summer to Die about the effect that a daughter s death has on a family Lois Lowry lost her own sister when she was young and Number the Stars 1991 is also about two families under pressure this time during Second World War