28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
ISBN10: 1250237149
ISBN13: 9781250237149
Hardcover
416 Pages
$18.99
CA$25.99
Warsaw, 1942.
Sixteen-year old Mira smuggles food into the Ghetto to keep herself and her family alive. When she discovers that the entire Ghetto is to be "liquidated"—killed or "resettled" to concentration camps—she desperately tries to find a way to save her family.
She meets a group of young people who are planning the unthinkable: an uprising against the occupying forces. Mira joins the resistance fighters who, with minimal supplies and weapons, end up holding out for twenty-eight days, longer than anyone had thought possible.
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Praise for 28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
"Throughout this complex novel, rich in evocative detail, Mira's view evolves from a narrow focus on herself and her family to consideration of the larger community around her, reflected in her first-person narrative."—Booklist (starred review)
"The story Safier shares of the 28 days of Jewish resistance after the Aktion in the Warsaw Ghetto is powerful indeed."—School Library Journal
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They’d spotted me.
The hyenas had spotted me!
And they were out to get me.
I could tell by instinct. Without actually having seen or heard them yet. The same way an animal in the wilderness can sense when it is...