A free-verse novel based on true events follows a young Jewish girl surviving the Lodz ghetto during the Holocaust.
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A free-verse novel based on true events follows a young Jewish girl surviving the Lodz ghetto during the Holocaust.
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This book follows Syvia (now Sylvia) Perlmutter, one of the twelve children to survive the Lodz ghetto. Syvia moves into a ghetto at age five. Things are rapidly getting scarier for her, beginning when her best friend Hava disappears, to receiving "wedding invitations" (orders to be at the train station). Even when the children are all told to board, Syvia is hidden away. When the Germans find her, all seems lost. But, in the end, they are saved - by the very star that caused them so much humili...
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Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content
Violence & gore
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Wartime deaths, murder, and deportations; starvation; limited gore via child's POV
Profanity
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No profanity present
Substance use
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No substance use depicted
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQIA+ representation
Religious content
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Jewish identity and persecution for religion recur throughout
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft elements
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content
Political content
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Nazi antisemitism and genocide drive the historical narrative
Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide content
Abuse & suffering
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Sustained Holocaust suffering: ghetto life, starvation, child persecution
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