4기 Number The Stars_Lois Lowry (8)

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Title	Number The Stars (8 )
Author	Lois Lowry
Pages	156	Word count	27197
HENS Level		Cumulative word count	227131
Author	Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After several years at Brown University, she turned to her family and to writing. She is the author of more than thirty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader.s Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association.s Children.s Book Award. Ms. Lowry now divides her time between Cambridge and an 1840s farmhouse in Maine. To learn more about Lois Lowry, see her website at www.loislowry.com
Summary	As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, nearly seven thousand people, across the sea to Sweden. The heroism of an entire nation reminds us that there was pride and human decency in the world even during a time of terror and war.
Review	2차 세계대전 당시 덴마크의 상황과 홀로코스트라는 내용 때문에 슬프고 어두울 거라 생각했지만 작가는 어쩌면 이리도 차분하면서도 위트있게 글을 써내려갔는지. 에필로그에 등장인물과 글을 쓰게 된 모티브, 실화들이 소개되어 있어 글을 일고 난후 또다른 재미거리를 준다. 위기의 순간마다 기지를 발휘하는 안나마리와 그 가족들, 유대인 학살과 전쟁이라는 주제가 마음속에 더 와닿고 그 시대를 살았던 사람들의 고통과 회한을 잠시나마 생각해보게 해주는 아름다운 책이다. 홀로코스트에 대한 또 다른 책으로 인상깊게 읽어던 책 ' The boy in the striped pajamas'를 추천한다.

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5년 전 쯤 이 책을 읽었던 것 같습니다. 그 때 이 책이 준 여운과 감동만 기억납니다. ^^;

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네 학생들에게 꼭 읽어보라고 추천하고 싶은책이에요~^^