Number the Stars - Lois Lowry [0]
Lois Lowry
Table of Contents
Title Page
Table of Contents
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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
1. Why Are You Running?
2. Who Is the Man Who Rides Past?
3. Where Is Mrs. Hirsch?
4. It Will Be a Long Night
5. Who Is the Dark-Haired One?
6. Is the Weather Good for Fishing?
7. The House by the Sea
8. There Has Been a Death
9. Why Are You Lying?
10. Let Us Open the Casket
11. Will We See You Again Soon, Peter?
12. Where Was Mama?
13. Run! As Fast As You Can!
14. On the Dark Path
15. My Dogs Smell Meat!
16. I Will Tell You Just a Little
17. All This Long Time
Afterword
About the Author
Look for these other books by Lois Lowry:
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Copyright © 1989 by Lois Lowry
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Sandpiper,
an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, an imprint of Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1989.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Lowry, Lois.
Number the stars / Lois Lowry.
p. cm.
Summary: In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old An-
nemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish
friend from the Nazis.
1. World War, 1939–1945—Denmark—Juvenile fiction. [1. World War,
1939–1945—Denmark—Fiction. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Jews—
Rescue—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction. 4. Denmark—Fiction.]
I. Title.
PZ7.L9673Nu 1989 88-37134
[Fic]—dc19 CIP
AC
ISBN: 978-0-395-51060-5 hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-547-57709-8 paperback
Manufactured in the United States of America
DOM 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For my friend Annelise Platt
Tusind tak
Contents
Introduction [>]
1. Why Are You Running? [>]
2. Who Is the Man Who Rides Past? [>]
3. Where Is Mrs. Hirsch? [>]
4. It Will Be a Long Night [>]
5. Who is the Dark-Haired One? [>]
6. Is the Weather Good for Fishing? [>]
7. The House by the Sea [>]
8. There Has Been a Death [>]
9. Why Are You Lying? [>]
10. Let Us Open the Casket [>]
11. Will We See You Again Soon, Peter? [>]
12. Where Was Mama? [>]
13. Run! As Fast As You Can! [>]
14. On the Dark Path [>]
15. My Dogs Smell Meat! [>]
16. I Will Tell You Just a Little [>]
17. All This Long Time [>]
Afterword [>]
Introduction
It's hard to believe that I wrote Number the Stars more than twenty years ago. It seems like yesterday that I answered the phone on a snowy January morning and received the news that it had been awarded the 1990 Newbery Medal.
Most books published that long ago have faded into a pleasant, undisturbed retirement on dusty library shelves, or become an occasional topic for a research paper. But Number the Stars seems to have acquired its own long and vibrant life; not a day goes by that I don't hear from a passionate reader of the book—some of them parents who remember it from their childhood and are now reading it with their own children.
I think readers of every age match themselves against the protagonists of books they love. Would I have done that? they ask themselves as they follow a fictional character through a novel. What choice would I have made?
And ten—the age of Annemarie in Number the Stars, and the approximate age of most of the book's readers—is an age when young people are beginning to develop a strong set of personal ethics. They want to be honorable people. They want to do the right thing. And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.
So they follow a story about a girl their age, caught in a frightening