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• Title:The blood years / Elana K. Arnold.
  
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• Author/Creator:Arnold, Elana K., author.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
  ©2023
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PZ7.A73517 Bl 2023
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania--Juvenile fiction.
  Grandfathers--Fiction.
  Jews--Juvenile fiction.
  Sisters--Juvenile fiction.
  Jewish families--Juvenile fiction.
  World War, 1939-1945--Romania--Juvenile fiction.
  Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)--Juvenile fiction.
  
• Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania--Fiction.
  Jews--Romania--Fiction.
  Coming of age--Fiction.
  Romania--History--1914-1944--Fiction.
  
• Genre/Form: Historical fiction.
  Domestic fiction.
  War fiction.
  Religious fiction.
  Bildungsromans.
  
• Edition:First edition
  
• Description:390 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  
• Summary:From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke Teitler and her older sister, Astra, live in a house, in a city, in a world divided. Their father ran out on them when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family. He's done his best to provide for them and shield them from antisemitism, but now, seven years later, being a Jew has become increasingly dangerous, even in their beloved home of Czernowitz, long considered a safe haven for Jewish people. And when Astra falls in love and starts pulling away from her, Rieke wonders if there's anything in her life she can count on-and, if so, if she has the power to hold on to it.Then-war breaks out in Europe.First the Russians, then the Germans, invade Czernowitz. Almost overnight, Rieke and Astra's world changes, and every day becomes a struggle: to keep their grandfather's business, to keep their home, to keep their lives. Rieke has long known that she exists in a world defined by those who have power and those who do not, and as those powers close in around her, she must decide whether holding on to her life might mean letting go of everything that has ever mattered to her-and if that's a choice she will even have the chance to make. Based on the true experiences of her grandmother's childhood in Holocaust-era Romania, award-winning author Elana K. Arnold weaves an unforgettable tale of love and loss in the darkest days of the twentieth century-and one young woman's will to survive them.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-387).
  
• ISBN:9780062990853 (hardcover)
  0062990853 (hardcover)
  
• Contents:Foreword
  A brief history of Czernowitz
  Part I: Astra and her lover. Pigeons and promises
  The way things are
  Café Europa
  How to fix things
  Welcome to the blood years
  Broken, and breaking
  Part II: The Russian year. The goose and the bear
  When flying monkeys attack
  When time stops
  The Moiseyev dancers
  Honeymoons, waxing, and waning
  Masks on
  The narrowing gyre
  What happens to Ruth
  Part III: A very lucky girl. The Nazis
  Never pray for a new king
  Into the ghetto
  Unexpected heroes
  In Mr. Weissinger's apartment
  How lucky
  Part IV: What it costs. Right now
  Payment in advance
  Treatment
  The wheelbarrow
  The locket
  Part V: In the name of love.