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Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania

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By Haya Leah Molnar
Publisher Farrar, Straus Giroux - (Farrar, Straus Giroux (BYR))
Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania
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Eva Zimmermann is eight years old, and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest, a city that is changing in ever more frightening ways. Evas family, full of eccentric and opinionated adults, will do absolutely anything to keep her safeeven if it means hiding her identity from her. With razorsharp depictions of her animated relatives, Haya Leah Molnars memoir of her childhood captures with touching precocity the very adult realities of living behind the iron curtain. Under a Red Skyis a 2011 Bank Street Best Childrens Book of the Year.

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77179 words77,179 words
320 pages320 pages
Lexile 870LLexile 870L
Grade 6 to 9Grade 6 to 9
Age 11-14Age 11-14
Published 2010Published 2010

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9780374318406

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