Yellow Star
by Jennifer Roy
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Author: Jennifer RoyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-15
ISBN: 076145277X
Number of pages: 242
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
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Book Review: Spectacular story ruined by choice of voice
Summary: 3 Stars
With many excellent books already available about the Holocaust, I can't recommend this so-so version of what should have been a spectacular story. The author has taken on a noble cause, sharing her aunt's Holocaust era childhood experiences in a Jewish ghetto with younger readers. Unfortunately, the memories of Syvia Perlmutter's amazing young life, as one of only twelve children to survive and gain freedom from the ghetto, falls flat in its ultra-simplified style. After discarding other methods of telling Syvia's story, Jennifer Roy chose to write it in the first person. A mistake. While some parts seem realistically genuine, others feel forced. Give me: the original tapes, the content of the original tapes "performed" by another (if the sound quality is not adequate), or the original transcripts over this historical fiction version requiring the reader to sort out facto from fiction. Better: Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, and the movie Life is Beautiful.
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Yellow Star is a Marshall Cavendish publication.
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