apocketfullofseeds

__ A Pocket Full of Seeds __ by Marilyn Sachs ISBN: 0-14-036593-1 ©1973 137 pages

-bottom of page 3 to top of page 4 when Nicole is describing the emotional pain she is feeling -top of p. 15 – when she and her sister were back living w/their parents, and then page 20 when they do finally get an apartment to live in
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Our main character, Nicole, is 13 years old when she comes home to find her parents and sister missing. She discovers later that they have been rounded up by the soldiers because they are Jewish. After learning that she is at a school in hiding, the book walks you back through the previous six years of her life when times were happier, even though her family struggled to make ends meet.
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YA fiction: historical fiction; France; German occupation; Jews


 * ©Jennifer Lang - WDMS – 2013 **