Four Perfect Pebbles:: A Holocaust Story

The twentieth-anniversary edition of Marion Blumenthal Lazan's acclaimed Holocaust memoir features new material by the author, a reading group guide, a map, and additional photographs. "The writing is direct, devastating, with no rhetoric or exploitation. The truth is in what's said and in what is left out."--ALA Booklist (starred review)

Marion Blumenthal Lazan's unforgettable and acclaimed memoir recalls the devastating years that shaped her childhood. Following Hitler's rise to power, the Blumenthal family--father, mother, Marion, and her brother, Albert--were trapped in Nazi Germany. They managed eventually to get to Holland, but soon thereafter it was occupied by the Nazis. For the next six and a half years the Blumenthals were forced to live in refugee, transit, and prison camps, including Westerbork in Holland and Bergen-Belsen in Germany, before finally making it to the United States. Their story is one of horror and hardship, but it is also a story of courage, hope, and the will to survive.

Four Perfect Pebbles features forty archival photographs, including several new to this edition, an epilogue, a bibliography, a map, a reading group guide, an index, and a new afterword by the author. First published in 1996, the book was an ALA Notable Book, an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, and IRA Young Adults' Choice, and a Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, and the recipient of many other honors. "A harrowing and often moving account."--School Library Journal

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Published: 03/21/1996
ISBN: 9780688142940
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/25/1996 pg. 86
Kirkus Review - Children 02/01/1996 pg. 231
Booklist 04/01/1996 pg. 1361
School Library Journal 05/01/1996 pg. 143
ALA Notable Children's Books 01/01/1997 pg. 1298
ALA Recmd for Reluctant YA's 01/01/1997 pg. 1308
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/1997 pg. 31
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1996 pg. 380 - Recommended, Satisfactory

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 58893 / Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story
Reading Level: 7.3 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 4