Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis by Susan Hood, Greg Dawson

2 reviews

ssorchaa's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, War, Classism, and Deportation

cafeduke's review

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Out of probably a couple hundred so far, this is the first book I'm including in my own "read" that I read to my kids while homeschooling them.  It's just that good.  My gosh, the way the authors put it all in verse and then explain the different styles of poetry used, the photos from the co-author whose own mother is the main character, the love and detail - all of it.  I love everything about this book for homeschooling.  But the story itself is so touching and so well told, it should be part of curriculums everywhere...now off to tell my favorite curriculum writers of it in case they don't already know.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Genocide, Violence, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and War

This is a story about WWII and the extermination of Jewish people in Ukraine prior to concentration camps. It is written for children but the subject is HEAVY.