A review by heyshay07
The Broken Mirror by Jenny Vasilyev, Kirk Douglas

3.0

The Broken Mirror is a quick but powerful story about a Jewish boy growing up and enduring the horrors of the Holocaust. The words and writting are almost elementary school simple with no elaboration at all which drives me crazy. The content is more middle school because Moishe does end up losing everything and everyone, but the story ultimately has a happy ending which I liked. I also loved the tie in to the Hans Christian Anderson story. Not a bad supplementary story to a WWII unit, but there are better out there like The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas, the Boy Who Dared, or The Book Theif. However, for a fast book with an emotional punch, it's a good read.