Ashes /
Kathryn Lasky.
- New York : Viking, 2010.
- 318 p. ; 22 cm.
School Library Journal, February 2010 Booklist starred, January 2010 Publisher's Weekly, January 2010 Horn Book, October 2010 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2010
In 1932 Berlin, thirteen-year-old Gaby Schramm witnesses the beginning of Hitler's rise to power, as soldiers become ubiquitous, her beloved literature teacher starts wearing a jewelled swastika pin, and the family's dear friend, Albert Einstein, leaves the country while Gaby's parents secretly bury his books and papers in their small yard.
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Family life--Germany--Fiction. Nazis--Fiction. Historical fiction.