The light in hidden places : a novel based on the true story of Stefania Podgórska / Sharon Cameron.
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TextPublisher: New York : Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2020Edition: First editionDescription: 377 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781338355932Subject(s): Burzminski, Stefania Podgórska -- Juvenile fiction | Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Juvenile fiction | Jews -- Poland -- Przemyśl -- Juvenile fiction | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Juvenile fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Juvenile fiction | Przemyśl (Poland) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction | Poland -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Young adult fiction. | Historical fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction) DDC classification: 813.6 | Fic Summary: Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemsyl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) and only Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything secret from the two Nazi officers who are living in her house.
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Based on the true story of Stefania Podgórska. Includes an author's note that outlines the later lives of Stefania, and many of the other people who appear in the book.
Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemsyl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) and only Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything secret from the two Nazi officers who are living in her house.
Ages 12+.
Grades 9 to 12.
HL650L Lexile.
Decoding demand: 92 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 90 (very high) Structure demand: 87 (very high) Lexile.
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.2 15 506449.
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