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188 pp.
| Scholastic |
April, 2000 |
TradeISBN 0-590-60363-9$$15.95
(3)
YA
Isaacs's novel, based on her mother-in-law's childhood, presents the moving story of two sisters incarcerated in a Nazi labor camp located in Czechoslovakia. The horror of camp life is depicted with immediacy as the girls work in a textile factory, suffer hunger and disease, and worry about their father in Poland. The sisters' bond is authentically and emotionally captured.