Is it night or day? /
Fern Schumer Chapman.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2010.
- 205 p. ; 22 cm.
Booklist starred School Library Journal Wilson's Junior High School Booklist starred, February 2010 Horn Book, October 2010 Kirkus Review, February 2010 Library Media Connection starred, May 2010 Publisher's Weekly, February 2010 School Library Journal, May 2010 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 2010 Wilson's Junior High School, October 2010
Twelve-year-old Edith is sent from her home in Germany in 1938 to live with her aunt and uncle in Chicago, Illinois, and escape Nazi persecution, but as she struggles to assimilate into American society, Edith worries about her parents and mourns the loss of everything she has known. Includes information on an American rescue operation that saved twelve hundred Jewish children between 1934 and 1945.