Number the Stars

My class just finished a book named Number the Stars; it's written by Lowis Lowry. Its a story about WW2. Two girls are best friends in the story. One's name is Ellen and she's Jewish. The other one's name is Annemarie, and shes not Jewish.

It tells about how it was dangerous to let the German soldiers know you were Jewish. They would take you away and maybe kill you. Ellen was almost always with Annemarie's family, and one the soldiers came, and Ellen had to act like Annemarie's dead sister, Lise. Annemarie's parents planed this so when the soldiers looked around they wouldn't know that Ellen is not their dauter the soldiers never learned that there not related.

At the end of the book Ellen's family had to escape to Sweden. Annemarie's uncle would hide them in his boat but they accidentally lost a package that would knock out the dogs sense of smell if the soldiers brought them. They did. they got the package and before the Germans cane and she saved a lot of peoples lives.

This is a really good book and I would recommend it to anyone who likes historic fiction.