

Yellow Star
Author: Jennifer Roy
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
Unabridged: 3 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 12/04/2012
Categories: Children's Fiction, Historical Stories, Biographical Stories
Author: Jennifer Roy
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
Unabridged: 3 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 12/04/2012
Categories: Children's Fiction, Historical Stories, Biographical Stories
Jennifer Roy is the author of more than thirty books for children and young adults, including Israel: Discovering Cultures and Mindblind. A former Gifted and Talented teacher, she holds a BS in Psychology and an MA in Elementary Education. Yellow Star is based on the childhood of Jennifer’s aunt Sylvia, who provided extensive interviews as the author was writing this book. Jennifer Roy lives in upstate New York with her husband and son.
It sounds like such a cliché but I really could not put down this book, and I read it in one day; I don’t know how many hours it took but even though I read slowly, it wasn’t many. This book is riveting. I’ve read many fiction and non-fiction books about the Holocaust and this is now one of my favor......more
Written in poetic form, the recollections and memories of one of the 12 children who survived the Lodz ghetto. Moving, simple, I finished it in two readings. Amazing book.......more
Like some other true WWII stories written for children, this has been published as fiction; I'm not sure why. I thought at first that the style was really going to annoy me (I wouldn't really call it free verse, myself, so much as just breaking up the lines), but after a couple of pages I got used to......more
What a touching story! It’s not easy to move me to tears but this book did just that. What I admired the most was not only it was a true story of a Holocaust survivor (author’s aunt Syvia) but the author’s decision to narrate it from a child’s perspective. Purposely told in easy, simple language, it......more