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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2018 | Middle School
Gr 6 Up—"To die was easy, to live was harder." Thus begins the story of Chaim and Gittel, Jewish twin siblings living during the time of the Nazi regime. Almost-mute Chaim and his sister struggle through everyday life during World War II. The decisions they make each day, even those that are minute, will affect their chances of survival. "We have chosen the more difficult path, that of life, now we mus...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2018
Yolen (The Devil's Arithmetic; Briar Rose) returns to the horrors of the Holocaust in this "Hansel and Gretel"-inspired story of cruelty, survival, and love. It begins in the Lodz ghetto, to which Jewish fourteen-year-old twins Chaim and Gittel Abromowitz have been forcibly relocated with their parents. Every knock on the door brings fear and uncertainty, and one day it means opening their tiny apartment to another family-Dr. and Mrs. Norenberg and their children, kindhearted Sophie and "bulldoggish" Br...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
