Book Review

Book Review

Ariel Hanson

    Annemarie is a strong willed child.  She, her best friend Ellen, and her little sister Kirsti are unstoppable.  Annemarie and Ellen do everything together, followed by Kirsti.  They have everything in common.  They live in the same apartment building, they are in the same grade, and same age.  The only thing that they have different, is that Ellen is Jewish.

They don’t know what is going on in the world.  They are just happy together and that’s fine, right? Lois Lowry does an amazing job in the fiction book Number the Stars  telling about Annemarie, her friends, and her family and about things that happened in Denmark  when the Germans took over.

They aren’t scared of anything until they run into Nazi guards after school.  They start to be a little scared but after awhile they don’t remember it,  until people start going missing.  Annemarie and her family start to worry about Ellen and her family.

     Finally, the Johansens get so worried that they have Ellen come live with them.  Annemarie doesn’t know what is going on and no one tells her until her family finds out when the Nazis are coming.  When she finds out what is happening to the Jews, she gets stronger for her family and the Rosens.  The Nazis come and it was a close call for all of them.  
    A day later, Annemarie’s mother takes Annemarie, Ellen, and Kirsti to their uncle’s house in Klampenborg.  Annemarie is happy that’s she’s safe from the guards and with her best friend.  They have so much fun and Annemarie is so happy to share the ocean with Ellen.  The first night, Ellen finds out everything.  Annemarie is sad that Ellen has to leave with her parents and go to Sweden. She finds out about what her uncle does and how much his life is at stake; along with  all of the other fishermen.

The next day, Annemarie finds her mom with a broken foot laying by the path that leads to town.  Annemarie finds her mother and helps her mother to the house, she finds this package that she remembers Peter give it to Mr. Rosen.  Her mom looks at it and tells Annemarie to go run to the boats and give it to her uncle.  

On the way, she runs into guards and she starts to act like Kirsti, who acts like a little girl who doesn’t know many things.  She gets past them and sprints to her uncle’s boat.  There, she gives her uncle the hankerchief and goes home.  That night when Annemarie’s uncle comes home, he tells her that he saved the Rosen’s life.

I really liked this book because it tells about some troubles that a family went through and how they got through them.  It’s was interesting to know how some people helped the Jews and how the Nazis got rid of them.  I thought people were brave of what they did even though they knew that their life was at stake.