Jane Yolen: The Devil's Arithmetic (Puffin Modern Classics)

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1.) What Worked: The fact that this girl (Hannah) feels the way that most kids do about holidays and having to listen to family stories and times that she was not around for. I think kids can really relate to Hannah's feelings. I also enjoyed how Hannah was then placed somewhere in which she was forced to experience what her family had been talking about for so long now.
2.) What Didn't Work: Some of the vocabulary was a little difficult to understand and...”

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poco_loco said:

“I had to read it in 7th grade and it's like 4th grade level. It was so boring in the begging it all most made me sick. that's never happened to me before. well it got better but it still wasn't fabulous. It got a lot better. like alot. but it's not near my favorite.
It was ... different. Life in the camps must have been boring beside that people die because that's what the book kind-of said to me.”

posted Monday, July 30 2007

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The Devil's Arithmetic (Puffin Modern Classics)

by Jane Yolen