When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (2008)

by Judith Kerr

ISBN: 9780007274772

Interest Level by Scholastic: Gr.3-5   Reading Level by Scholastic: Gr.5.1

 IL by AR: Upper Grade   RL by AR: Gr.5.7

Lexile: 940L     DRA: 60    Guided Reading(Fountas and Pinnell): X

        Age: 10+    UK Equivalent: Upper Key Stage 2   Theme: Holocaust

Type: Chapter Book, UK Book     Genre: Historical Fiction

Synopsis: Nine-year-old Anna is living in Germany, and the year is 1933. It is one of the country's most troubled eras. But she's too busy with her schoolwork and friends to notice Adolf Hitler's face glaring from political posters plastered all over Berlin. And she's never even paid much attention to the fact that she's Jewish. Being Jewish, she thought, was just something that you inherited from your parents and grandparents, like the color of your hair. One day, she is forced to take notice. Her father is unaccountably, horrifyingly missing. Soon after, she and her brother, Max, are hurried out of Germany by their mother with alarming secrecy that Anna does not fully understand. At last, they are reunited in Switzerland, and Anna and family embark on an adventure that extends over the course of several years, and over the borders of many countries. Along the way, they learn new languages, new customs, how to cope with confusion, and how to be poor. They are refugees, and Anna soon discovers that it requires special skills to stay a few steps ahead of the Nazis.
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit avoids most of the details of the actual Holocaust. Instead it provides young readers with a gentle, yet important introduction to a devastating chapter in world history.  (Credits to Scholastic)