Yellow star

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The work Yellow star represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Culver-Union Township Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Yellow star

Statement of responsibility

by Jennifer Roy

Creator

• trueRoy, Jennifer Rozines, 1967-
• Roy, Jennifer Rozines, 1967-

Subject

• trueWorld War II -- Poland
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Juvenile fiction
• trueHope
• trueHunger
• trueJewish families
• trueJewish girls
• Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland | Łódź -- Juvenile fiction
• Jews -- Poland -- Fiction
• trueJews, Polish -- Persecutions
• trueNazis, Grmany
• truePoland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945
• Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
• truePoverty
• truePrejudice
• trueResilience (Personal quality)
• trueSecond World War era (1939-1945) -- 1939 -- 1945
• trueStorytelling
• trueSurvival
• true1930s -- 1930 -- 1939
• true1940s -- 1940 -- 1949
• trueBiographical fiction
• trueChildren and war
• trueCourage
• trueDeath
• trueFamilies -- Poland
• Family life -- Poland -- Fiction
• trueFear
• trueFirst person narratives
• trueGhettoes, Jewish -- Lodz, Poland
• trueGirls
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueHolocaust (1933-1945) -- Children
• trueHolocaust (1933-1945) -- Lodz, Poland
• trueHolocaust survivors
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Fiction

Genre

• trueHistorical fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• trueBiographical fiction
• Fiction
• trueFirst person narratives

Language

eng

Summary

From 1939 to 1945, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation

Award

• William Allen White Children's Book Award (Kansas) for Sixth-Eighth Grade, 2009.
• ALA Notable Children's Book, 2007
• School Library Journal Best Books, 2006.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 710
• 710L

Intended audience source

• Lexile
• Lexile

Interest level

MG

LC call number

PZ7.R812185

LC item number

Yel 2006

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710

Literary form

fiction

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• 5
• 9

Reading level

4.3

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

pre adolescent