Number the stars

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The work Number the stars represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in North Webster Community Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Number the stars

Statement of responsibility

Lois Lowry

Creator

• Lowry, Lois
• trueLowry, Lois

Subject

• trueCourage in girls
• trueChildren
• trueClassics
• trueCopenhagen, Denmark
• trueCourage in women
• Denmark -- Fiction
• trueDenmark -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945
• trueFriendship
• Friendship -- Fiction
• trueGirls -- Friendship
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueHolocaust (1933-1945)
• trueJews
• trueResistance to military occupation
• trueRighteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Denmark
• trueSecond World War era (1939-1945) -- 1939 -- 1945
• trueTen-year-old girls
• trueWorld War II -- Jews | Rescue
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Denmark -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Denmark -- Juvenile fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews | Rescue -- Fiction
• Young adult fiction

Genre

• Juvenile fiction
• Young adult fiction
• trueClassics
• Fiction
• trueHistorical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Tone

• trueSuspenseful
• trueSerious

Writing style

• trueAttention-grabbing

Character

• trueBelievable

Award

• Charlotte Award (New York), Intermediate, 1992.
• Golden Archer Awards (Wisconsin): Middle/Jr. High, 1998.
• Great Stone Face Children's Book Award (New Hampshire), 1992.
• Maine Student Book Award, 1991.
• National Jewish Book Award, 1990.
• Newbery Medal, 1990.
• Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (Illinois), 1992.
• Sydney Taylor Book Award for Older Readers, 1989.

Awards note

Newbery Medal, 1990.

Cataloging source

HCO

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

670L

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.L9673

LC item number

Nu 1989

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670

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 3
• 7

Target audience

adolescent