Friedrich
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Penguin Young Readers Group · Paperback · May 1, 1987
"Superb, sensitive, honest and compelling . . . a simple but terrifying tale of the destruction of a single Jewish family."--The New York Times Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award His best friend thought Friedrich was lucky.
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- Who it’s for
- A spare, affecting story makes the human cost of Nazi rule painfully immediate.
- Themes
- Antisemitic persecution, Family loss, Nazi Germany
- Genres
- Holocaust Stories, Jewish Religious Stories, Historical Europe
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"Superb, sensitive, honest and compelling . . . a simple but terrifying tale of the destruction of a single Jewish family."--The New York Times Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award His best friend thought Friedrich was lucky. His family had a good home and enough money, and in Germany in the early 1930s, many were unemployed. But when Hitler came to power, things began to change. Friedrich was expelled from school, and then his mother died and his father was deported.
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For Friedrich was Jewish.
A Quiet, Stark Reckoning
A spare, affecting story makes the human cost of Nazi rule painfully immediate.
Come here for
- A child’s perspective on Germany in the early 1930s
- A clear-eyed account of a Jewish family’s destruction
Expect
- A simple, unsettling narrative
- Loss and persecution treated with directness
Where it sits
| Holocaust Stories | 95% |
|---|---|
| Historical Europe | 29% |
| Jewish Religious Stories | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Holocaust Stories
- Jewish Religious Stories
- Authors
- Hans Peter Richter
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- May 1, 1987
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Antisemitic persecution · Family loss · Nazi Germany
- Reading lane
- The Classics