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Reviewed By Maya [|http://www.powells.com]

Lois Lowry wrote a book called __Number the Stars__. It is about a ten-year-old girl named Annemarie Johansen, and she has a best friend named Ellen Rosen. In 1943 their life in Copenhagan is filled with Nazis walking around their town, and they are pretty much looking for people who are Jews. After on some night a soldier has came to the Johansen's house and asked if they knew where Ellen is because she is a Jew. Annemarie's parents had hidden Annemarie, her little sister and Ellen. Since Ellen was wearing the Star of David Annemarie had yanked it off so nobody would know she is a Jew.Later on some Ellen's parents has some how disappeared. . So Ellen had to stay with the Johansen family for a while. Annemarie sacraficed to save her best friends life from the Nazis, before they capture Ellen.