Mara’s Stories: Glimmers in the Darkness
By Gary D. Schmidt
Published by Henry Holt and Company 2001 149 pages
Genre: Historical Fiction, Holocaust
Reading Level: Young Adult
Summary: This book is a collection of stories that are told by Mara, a young girl in a concentration camp, to the other women and children in her barracks to help them get through another day.
Reponse: This book experiences the range of emotions of the prisoners of a concentration camp. There are stories of escape, rescue and divine intervention. There are some very funny parts of this book and some parts that almost rip your heart out with their sorrow. The courage of Mara is quite amazing. The ability to go through the everyday horrors of a concentration camp and still be able to help others through stories is quite remarkable, but it is the telling of the stories that she too is able to survive and become alive again.
Cautionary notes: horrors of the Holocaust and violence
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