The War Within These Walls

by Aline Sax

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Pub Date Oct 16 2013 | Archive Date Apr 03 2014

Eerdmans Books for Young Readers | Myrick Marketing & Media, LLC

Children's Fiction

Description

It's World War II, and Misha's family, like the rest of the Jews living in Warsaw, has been moved by the Nazis into a single crowded ghetto. Conditions are appalling: every day more people die from disease, starvation, and deportations. Misha does his best to help his family survive, even crawling through the sewers to smuggle food. When conditions worsen, Misha joins a handful of other Jews who decide to make a final, desperate stand against the Nazis.
Heavily illustrated with sober blue-and-white drawings, this powerful novel dramatically captures the brutal reality of a tragic historical event.

A Note From the Publisher

Society of Illustrators "The Original Art" Annual Exhibition 2013

Advance Praise

"The combination of the illustrations and the author's spare prose make this a good choice for reluctant readers and an outstanding example of Holocaust fiction." -School Library Journal, starred review
"'I had never felt so Jewish before,' the narrator says. Sax's achievement is to have made every reader feel this with him." -Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Sax gives modern readers an unrelenting, heart-rending insight into the hell that the Nazis created. Gripping, powerful, shattering." -Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"The combination of the illustrations and the author's spare prose make this a good choice for reluctant readers and an outstanding example of Holocaust fiction." -School Library Journal, starred...