The librarian of Auschwitz

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The work The librarian of Auschwitz represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Adams Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

The librarian of Auschwitz

Statement of responsibility

Antonio Iturbe ; translated by Lilit Žekulin Thwaites

Creator

• Iturbe, Antonio, 1967-
• trueIturbe, Antonio, 1967-

Contributor

• trueIturbe, Antonio, 1967-
• Thwaites, Lilit Žekulin,

Author

• Iturbe, Antonio, 1967-

Translator

• Thwaites, Lilit Žekulin,

Subject

• Books and reading -- Fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueHolocaust (1933-1945)
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Fiction
• JUVENILE FICTION / Books & Libraries
• JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Holocaust
• trueJews
• Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction
• trueJews, Czech
• trueKraus, Dita, 1929-
• Kraus, Dita, 1929- -- Fiction
• Kraus, Dita, 1929- -- Juvenile fiction
• truePoland
• truePrague, Czech Republic -- History | German occupation, 1939-1945
• trueSecond World War era (1939-1945) -- 1939 -- 1945
• trueTeenage girls
• trueTranslations -- Spanish to English
• trueWorld War II
• trueAuschwitz (Concentration camp)
• trueBooks and reading
• trueConcentration camps
• Concentration camps -- Fiction
• Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• trueTranslations
• Juvenile fiction
• trueHistorical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story

Member of

• trueBibliotecaria de Auschwitz

Theme

• trueSurviving the Holocaust

Pace

• trueIntensifying

Tone

• trueHaunting
• trueBleak

Writing style

• trueCandid

Award

• Sydney Taylor Book Award for Teen Readers, 2018.
• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2018.

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

Intended audience

940L

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.1.I93

LC item number

Lib 2017

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

940

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 8
• 12

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adolescent