Warsaw, 1942. Sixteen-year old Mira smuggles food into the Warsaw Ghetto to keep herself and her family alive. When she discovers that the entire Ghetto is to be "liquidated"—killed or "resettled" to concentration camps—she desperately tries to find a way to save her family. She meets a group of young people who are planning the unthinkable: an uprising against the occupying forces. Mira joins the resistance fighters who, with minimal supplies and weapons, end up holding out for twenty-eight days, longer than anyone had thought possible.
During this time, Mira has to decide where her heart belongs. To Amos, who will take as many Nazis as he can with him into the grave? Or to Daniel, who wants to help orphans in a shelter?
Title alpha 28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
Level History High
Pages Count 416
Genre Fiction
Topics Jewish Holocaust (1939–1945). Polish Jews. World War II (1939–1945). Underground movements. Warsaw, Poland. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943. Nazi occupation of Poland, 1939–1945.
Lexile HL700L
Trim Size 8 1/4" x 5 1/3"
JLG Span Fall
Language English
Rights type Print
Publication date 2020-03-09
JLG Release Date Jul 2020
Minimum grade 9
Maximum grade 12
Reading level High
Format Print
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