Sacred Shadows

by Maxine Rose Schur

Book Overview

"When I was told my father was dead, I ran away....I reached the pine grove, and there I flung myself down, hugged the damp earth, and waited."Against a pre-Hitler backdrop rarely viewed in young adult novels, Lena Katz suddenly learns that the Germany for which her father died is now considered part of Poland. She grows up torn between her desire to leave and her allegiance to her mother, who ignores thecountry's growing anti-Semitism. Then Janusz,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803722958
• ISBN13: 9780803722958
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 11 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 9

Customer Reviews

I loved this book!!!

This Book is an excellent book. Not only is it fun to read but it is imformative too. This book was set during world war one and the holocaust. This book is about a young girl and her life over a long period of time. It had a very clever plot and kept me interested the whole way through the book. This book is geared for people between the ages of 12-15. Buy this book and you won't be sorry.

It's hard to be a jew in Poland!

Sacred Shadows is an exiting and touching book. It shows what it was like for a German Jew to live in Poland during the times of Hitler. Lena, a teenaged girl who helps her mother in the shoe store. Sala, a friend from school, and Lena become very good friends, but later Sala freezes to death near a lake after a cold night in Lena's basement. Further into the story Lena falls in love and goes to another country with him because it's too hard to be a Jew in Poland. This is a great book, I think that everyone should read it!