About this title: Bored during a Passover ceremony and tired of her grandfather's constant reflection on the Holocaust, 12-year-old Hannah finds her self transported through time from America in 1988 to Poland in 1942. There Hannah finds that she is no longer Hannah, but a girl named Chaya who is being sent to a concentration camp.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Scholastic
Date Published: 1988
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, slight shelf wear to cover, slight aging to pages, stk #2180q9. 170 p. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Puffin Books, United States of America
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780140345353ISBN:0140345353
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good. No Jacket Textbook. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Softcover 170 pp. Usable as a textbook. Helpful for acting students, and literature students. No underscoring. Binding tight, clean. read more
Description: Very Good. 0140345353 Great condition Soft Cover book, clean pages, mild creases to spine, light edge/corner rubs, this book is GREAT! Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Puffin Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780140345353ISBN:0140345353
Description: Good. No Jacket. Spine and corners bumped, slight edge wear, markings and stamp mark on first three pages, the rest of the text is clean, binding tight. read more
"Story about a Jewish girl who is tired of celebrating pass over because it is boring. She goes over to celebrate pass over but when she opens the door she goes back into the past then soldiers come and take her to a concentration camp. She worked hard and received little food. She meets a friend called Chaya.Chaya one day decided to escape. Then the Jewish girl closed her eyes for a very long time and she started back where she began Then her aunt told her that she was the little girl who escaped from the camp. I liked this book because i like reading about the holocaust but i think it could have been better."
"I usually read to avoid hearing about depressing subjects but I went ahead and read this one even though it was about a Jewish girl living during WW2.
It was a good book, and I got choked up in the end. Then I couldn't get to sleep at night because I was too busy pondering how civilized societies are capable of butchering millions of people. It seems so impossible, and yet it's happened more than once in history.
It makes you look at your friends and neighbors and wonder what sort of hearts of darkness might be there.
And it makes you wonder what might happen again in the future. What would I do if the government came for me or for my neighbors?
I know it's not the purpose of the book--but it did make me want to go out and buy a gun for the first time in my life. If the Jews had been armed, it would have been a different story.
Anyway, this was a good book and it made you think--although I go back and forth as to whether it should really be in the juvenile section. I'm not sure it's a book I'd choose for an eight year-old. I mean, if I had trouble sleeping after reading this book, it might be too much for a young child to handle. Parents should probably read it before checking it out for their children."
"I read this before I gave it to Noah. He had to pick one book to read during the summer for school. There were a few genres to pick from and call us crazy but we picked this one. He has not read it yet (but I am nagging him to get this assignment done!)
I could not sleep after reading this book but then again who can sleep after reading about the Holocaust? The second half of the book takes place in a concentration camp-- while the book is not overly graphic the theme of the gas chambers, shaved heads, boxcars, etc... all the grisly Holocaust details are in the book. My friend Cindy told me her daughter also had to read it last year in 6th grade. I think it is well written for the age group but it is a tough read on a very mature topic. I discussed it with Noah this morning and it appears that he is aware of most of these details from Hebrew school ( which makes me wonder why they did not send home a note to tell the parents that they were explaining this to the kids but I digress)."
"This is a fictional book from a totally different perspective: a victim from inside the concentration camps. A girl who is tired of "remembering" Passover, opens the door to the 1940's, Nazi Occupation of Europe. She has her memories of the real world, which slowly grows fuzzier as she learns to endure the atrocities of the camps. The end of the book left me in tears, where she must make the choice between her Hebrew name of "Chaya" which means life or Hannah. Will she choose to live and tell the story or die as Hannah? Beautiful book which was required reading for an education course I took in college, which made me read everything I could by Jane Yolen. This is written for teenagers."
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