The Devil's Arithmetic (Puffin Modern Classics)
The Devil's Arithmetic (Puffin Modern Classics) By JANE YOLEN.
Hannah is tired of holiday gatherings−all her family ever talks about is the past. In fact, it seems to her that’s what they do every Jewish holiday. But this year’s Passover Seder will be different−Hannah will be mysteriously transported into the past . . . and only she knows the unspeakable horrors that await.
Paperback | Published by Puffin Books Apr 12, 2004 | 208 Pages | 5 x 7 | Middle Grade (10 and up)
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award
“A triumphantly moving book.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
See also Novel Units # 7698 and 7699
Hannah thinks tonight's Passover Seder will be the same as always. Little does she know that she will be mysteriously transported into the past to a Jewish village in Nazi-Occupied Poland. She assumes the life of Chaya in 1942. Shortly, the Nazis take Chaya and her neighbors off to a concentration camp. Slowly, Hannah's own memory of her past fades until she is Chaya completely as she copes with her circumstances and makes friends with Rifka. In an act of self-sacrifice, she volunteers to go to the gas chamber in place of Rifka, but as the door closes, she is returned to her grandmother’s home.
