In 1938, after a minor traffic accident, seventeen-year-old Egon Katz joins an increasing number of German Jews desperately trying to find a way out of the country.
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From Publishers Weekly
PW called this novel about a 17-year-old Jewish boy in Nazi Germany " absorbing, hopeful yet not naive." Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 8 Up-Like many teenage boys, Egon Katz, 17, a Jewish baker's apprentice, is full of energy, big ideas, and love. But his home is Nazi Germany; it is one month after Kristallnacht; and life as he has known it is disintegrating. He comes to the attention of the authorities when he is involved in a scooter accident with a prominent businessman. Rather than report to Gestapo headquarters, Egon decides to flee the country. Ray's afterword explains that this is her father-in-law's story of escape. Knowing that these events happened to a real man who lived to tell about them lends power and credibility to the novel. But the author has not always been careful to separate what Egon knew then from her post-Holocaust knowledge, often making the narrative seem too modern and, in one case, historically misleading. Egon mentions "a crime of Dachau proportions," when the reality of the concentration camps would not have been known so soon after Kristallnacht. Still, the book is exciting and accessible to teens, regardless of their cultural background, and the relatively happy ending instills hope for the continuation of a people.
Sharon Grover, Arlington County Department of Libraries, VA
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Sharon Grover, Arlington County Department of Libraries, VA
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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