Cover image for The whispering town / Jennifer Elvgren ; illustrated by Fabio Santomauro.
Title:
The whispering town / Jennifer Elvgren ; illustrated by Fabio Santomauro.
ISBN:
9781467711944

9781467711951
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Publication Information:
Minneapolis, MN : Kar-Ben Publishing, [2014]
Physical Description:
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
General Note:
"Fabio Santomauro, illustrator"--Title page verso.
Awards Note:
Prairie Pasque Children's Book Award, 2016-2017.

Honor book for the Sydney Taylor Book Award (Older reader / 2015)
Summary:
The story of neighbors in a small Danish fishing village who, during the Holocaust, shelter a Jewish family waiting to be ferried to safety in Sweden. It is 1943 in Nazi-occupied Denmark. Anett and her parents are hiding a Jewish woman and her son, Carl, in their cellar until a fishing boat can take them across the sound to neutral Sweden. The soldiers patrolling their street are growing suspicious, so Carl and his mama must make their way to the harbor despite a cloudy sky with no moon to guide them. Worried about their safety, Anett devises a clever and unusual plan for their safe passage to the harbor. (Based on a true story).
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.1 0.5 174768.
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Audience:
Decoding demand: 80 (high) Semantic demand: 71 (high) Syntactic demand: 84 (very high) Structure demand: 85 (very high) Lexile
Interest age level:
Ages 7-11.
Audience:
530L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocn827198399
Availability:
Burnsville - Burnhaven~1
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