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Title: Number the Stars
Author: Lois Lowry
Year First Published: 1998
Page Count: 136
Synopsis: Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated". Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen's life. An ALA Notable Book. A "School Library Journal" Best Book of the Year. Teacher's Guide. BDD Online-Teacher's Resource Center.

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Profanity Violence Sexual Content
If anything there might have been one cuss word. There is a little bit because it's a war book but it doesn't focus on that part of the war. It's insinuated more than anything else. Talks about a woman nursing her baby if you consider that to be sexual content.
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Historical Fiction

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Focus Military/War Setting Europe
Main Character Female Setting Earth Based
Main Character Child Time Period World War II
Number of pages 200 or less Time Period Past
Readability Easy Type Traditional Historical Fiction
Religion Jewish Type Suspense

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