Finishing Number the Stars

Kim Malthe Bruun

We finished Number the Stars today! Many student agreed it was the best novel they have ever read! This was out third novel this year.  It was also  our first novel in our genre study of the Holocaust!  We learned about the influences that Lois Lowry had for writing this book.  She based Peter on an actual Danish resistance fighter named Kim Malthe Bruun who was executed by the Nazis for his involvement in sabotaging the Nazi operation in Copenhagen. Annemarie and Lise were based on w Danish woman named Annelise.  What an awesome experience...... reading this novel with the Ape.  We also got to listen to the man we met in the story A Child of the Warsaw Ghetto.  What an incredible story of suffering and survival!