The blood years /
From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke Teitler and her older sister, Astra, live in a house, in a city, in a world divided. Their father ran out on the...
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New York, NY :
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- A brief history of Czernowitz
- Part I: Astra and her lover. Pigeons and promises
- The way things are
- Café Europa
- How to fix things
- Welcome to the blood years
- Broken, and breaking
- Part II: The Russian year. The goose and the bear
- When flying monkeys attack
- When time stops
- The Moiseyev dancers
- Honeymoons, waxing, and waning
- Masks on
- The narrowing gyre
- What happens to Ruth
- Part III: A very lucky girl. The Nazis
- Never pray for a new king
- Into the ghetto
- Unexpected heroes
- In Mr. Weissinger's apartment
- How lucky
- Part IV: What it costs. Right now
- Payment in advance
- Treatment
- The wheelbarrow
- The locket
- Part V: In the name of love.