Bibliograph

Type

Label

The safest lie, Angela Cerrito

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

570L, lexileDecoding: 5 (very hard), Vocabulary: 5 (very hard), Sentences: 5 (very hard), Patterns: 5 (very hard), Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The safest lie

Oclc number

885547362

Responsibility statement

Angela Cerrito

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, MG, 3.9, 7.0.Reading Counts!, 4.3.

Summary

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist...It's 1940, and nine-year-old Anna Bauman and her parents are among the 300,000 Polish Jews struggling to survive the wretched conditions in the Warsaw ghetto. Anna draws the attention of a woman called Jolanta - a code name of the real-life resistance spy Irena Sendler, who smuggled hundreds of children out of the ghetto. Jolanta wants to help Anna escape, but first Anna must assume a new identity, that of Roman Catholic orphan Anna Karwolska. Whisked out of the ghetto to a Christian orphanage, Anna struggles to hide her true identity...until she slowly realizes that the most difficult part of this charade is not remembering the details of her new life, but trying not to forget the old one entirely. This powerful historical novel sheds slight on the hidden children, who escaped the horrors of ghettos and concentration camps only to lose their identity and heritage, living among foreign families to stay safe. Informed by the author's interviews with Irena Sendler, the book includes an author's note detailing the research and historical information that brought this story to life. --, From amazon.com

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification