Author: Lois Lowry
Title: Number the Stars
Illustrator: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Year: 1990
Genre: Newbery
Format: Hardcover
Reading Level: Middle School
Interest level: Middle School
Topics: escaping from areas, Jewish religion
Summary: This is the story of a girl named Annemarie. She is helping her friend Ellen who is Jewish. Ellen pretends to be Annemarie's older sister who was killed by Nazi soldiers. While reading this book you are seeing the whole story from Annemarie's perspective. Soliders come looking for her family who are in hiding. She has to think how to get out of this situation.
Extension Activity: Explain to the kids what it would be like to be in Ellen's situation. Ask them what they would do if they were ever to be in that type of situation.
