During the height of the 1950s polio epidemic, Georgie obsesses about the disease. She knows the symptoms (all three stages); tallies the number of new cases in her hometown; and notes the deaths. Imagine her fascination when her family moves and she discovers that her new teenage neighbor, Phyllis,
Gaby Schramm (b. 1919) is a child of privilege: her father, a professor at the University of Berlin, is Einstein’s good friend; the Schramms’ social circle includes celebrated Jewish newspaper columnist Baba Blumenthal and her highly placed connections. In 1932, political turmoil is lead
Silk & Venom: Searching for a Dangerous Spider by Kathryn Lasky; photos by Christopher G. Knight Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 64 pp. 2/11 978-0-7636-4222-8 $16.99 After presenting a brief but informative overview of spider fundamentals, Lasky shadows arachn
Gr 6-10–Lasky’s novel, set in Berlin in 1932, opens with an author’s note that provides historical background. Gaby Schramm, 13, is an avid reader of world literature, and annoyed that her math teacher confiscates her books. Her unease grows when brown-shirted SA troops of Hitler&r
ASHES, by Kathryn Lasky (Viking 9780670011575). In 1932 Berlin, blond 13-year-old Gabriella looks like the Aryan purists’ ideal, but her strongly anti-Fascist family is derisively called “white Jews,” and her astrophysicist father is friends with Einstein, whose theory of relativi
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