A couple spots and faint ripples to rear panel of jacket, with a few shallow closed tears and tiny (1/8th'') chip to foot of spine. In original unclipped ($12.95) blue-tinted photographic dust jacket with gilt-stamped ornament. Original blind-stamped black cloth, gilt-lettered spine. 'But I had never heard it before in such a riveting, personal way.' With Annelise's permission, Lowry created Annemarie," the heroine of NUMBER THE STARS. Seizing the moment, the sea star then everts its stomach out through its mouth, and into the mussel (only a 1/100th of an inch opening is required). 'I suppose I had heard the story before, of the way the Danes smuggled their Jewish population to Sweden in 1943,' Lowry writes. The sea star can apply so much force to the mussel valves (7 or more pounds) that it will bend the shell. According to Erin Blakemore, "Annelise spoke compellingly about her fear during air raids and frozen winters-and her terror of the Nazis who occupied her country and controlled its citizens' lives. A poignant story of children forced by the horrors of war to grow up, it is based in part on the real life of Lowry's friend. Two ten-year-old girls navigate life under the Nazi occupation of Copenhagen, eventually getting involved in resistance that smuggled nearly 7000 Jews out of the country and into Sweden. First printing of the Newbery Award winner, the story of the Danish Resistance during World War I - "one of the best literary introductions to the Holocaust for children" (Marjorie Ingall).
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