Number the Stars

Lois Lowry is the author of Number the Stars. She made over 20 novels and we read one of them. She is a great writer and our class has read 2 of her best selling books. We read The Giver and Number the Stars. I think that with all the books that she wrote, she wanted to show no similarity in any of her books.

Recently we finished The Giver. It taught us how it would be if we had a perfect world. I think that book was very interesting, seeing how they don't know what feelings or colors were.

In the book, Number the Stars, there are many characters. Annemarie is one of those characters. I think she is the most important because she helps the most, and becomes the bravest. She also has a sister named Kirsti who is very stubborn and brave. And the last of all was the Rosen family. They were Jewish, so they had to hide from the Germans.

Suddenly in the book people start to disappear. Ellen's parents are gone and Ellen has to pretend that she is German and has to stay with the Johansens. As soon as Annemarie's father said that none of the Germans were going to come at night.... they do. And they knock on the door because they know that the Rosens are mutual friends. So when they go to the bedroom that the girls are sleeping in they realize that Ellen is wearing the Star of David.

At the end of the book, everything is back to normal, except that the Rosens never came back. When Annemrie goes through all Lise's stuff, she finds the Star of David, and asks her Papa to fix it so she can wear it until her friend Ellen comes back.

I think that I would so recommend this book because it was very exciting and very well explained. I also like it because it is telling me part of history and what happened.