The light in hidden places : a novel based on the true story of Stefania Pódgorska / Sharon Cameron.
Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store in for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemsyl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) and only Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything secret from the two Nazi officers who are living in her house.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781338355956
- ISBN: 1338355953
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (377 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
General Note: | Based on the true story of Stefania Podgórska. Includes an author's note that outlines the later lives of Stefania, and the many of the other people who appear in the book. |
Target Audience Note: | Ages 12+. Scholastic Press. Grades 9 to 12. Scholastic Press. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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