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Upon the Head of the Goat
- Author
- Aranka Siegal
- Narrator
- Christina Moore
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 7 December 2012
- Run Time
- 7 hours 10 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The classic true story of one child's experiences during the holocaust.
Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939–1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.
Upon the Head of the Goat is the winner of the 1982 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a 1982 Newbery Honor Book.
“This is a book that should be read by all those interested in the Holocaust and what it did to young and old.”—Isaac Bashevis Singer
Janusz Korczak Literary Competition • Boston Globe–Horn Book Award • Newbery Honor Book • American Library Association Notable Children's Books • Booklist Best Books of the '80s • Booklist Editors' Choice • IRA Teachers' Choices • School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
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Details
- Author
- Aranka Siegal
- Narrator
- Christina Moore
- Duration
- 7 hours 10 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 December 2012
- ISBN
- 9781470346010
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Judaism
Synopsis
The classic true story of one child's experiences during the holocaust. Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939–1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.  Upon the Head of the Goat is the winner of the 1982 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a 1982 Newbery Honor Book. “This is a book that should be read by all those interested in the Holocaust and what it did to young and old.”—Isaac Bashevis Singer Janusz Korczak Literary Competition • Boston Globe–Horn Book Award • Newbery Honor Book • American Library Association Notable Children's Books • Booklist Best Books of the '80s • Booklist Editors' Choice • IRA Teachers' Choices • School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
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