Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania

Eva Zimmermann is eight years old, and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest, a city that is changing in ever more frightening ways. Eva's family, full of eccentric and opinionated adults, will do absolutely anything to keep her safe--even if it means hiding her identity from her. With razor-sharp depictions of her animated relatives, Haya Leah Molnar's memoir of her childhood captures with touching precocity the very adult realities of living behind the iron curtain.

Under a Red Sky is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 03/30/2010
ISBN: 9780374318406
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.20d
Award: Sydney Taylor Book Award - Notable
Award: National Jewish Book Award - Winner
Award: Cybils - Finalist

Review Citations: Booklist 02/15/2010 pg. 47
Kirkus Review - Children 04/01/2010
Publishers Weekly 03/29/2010 pg. 61
School Library Journal 05/01/2010 pg. 134
Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2010 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2010 - Recommended, Satisfactory

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 136414 / Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania
Reading Level: 5.4 / Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus / Point Value: 12