Antonio Iturbe
Author
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Boylston - Eighth Grade Summer Reading Program
Deerfield - 2024 Frontier HS FICTION Summer Reading
Jones Library - Cecilia's Picks
Townsend YA Books Set in the Past
Deerfield - 2024 Frontier HS FICTION Summer Reading
Jones Library - Cecilia's Picks
Townsend YA Books Set in the Past
Description
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to...