From the German invasion of Poland in 1939 to the liberation of her concentration camp in 1945, the author chronicles an adolescence shaped by the horrors of the Holocaust but strengthened by the force of her own will.
Cage ANNOTATION A teenage girl recounts the suffering and persecution of her family under the Nazis, in a Polish ghetto, during deportation, and in a concentration camp.
FROM THE PUBLISHER From the German invasion of Poland in 1939 to the liberation of her concentration camp in 1945, the author chronicles an adolescence shaped by the horrors of the Holocaust but strengthened by the force of her own will.
FROM THE CRITICS Publishers Weekly Teenaged Riva narrates the suffering of her family during the Holocaust. As PW said, "Her story wrenches the heart, but makes one rejoice as well." Ages 12-up. (Aug.)
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