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| Angel Girl | 
 enlarge | Author: Laurie Friedman
Creator: Ofra Amit
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95 (39.90 RON)
Buy New: $11.53 (27.14 RON)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 26865
Media: Library Binding
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10 x 9.8 x 0.3
ISBN: 0822587394
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5318092
EAN: 9780822587392
ASIN: 0822587394
Publication Date: September 2008
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Product Description
Herman lives in a labor camp. It is World War II, and the Nazis have made him a prisoner. He is forced to work long hours, and his only food is soup made of water. Soon he loses the will to go on. Then she appears. A young girl on the other side of the barbed-wire fence - an angel girl, bearing food and hope in the most hopeless of times. She seems like a miracle. And for Herman, the miracles have just begun...Based on a ture tale of survival, Angel Girl is a story of love, hope, and the strength of the human spirit.
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 WONDERFUL BOOK FOR FAMILY November 16, 2008
I GAVE THIS BOOK TO MY FAMILY IN CA..THE GRANDDAUGHTERS ARE 9 AND 11...THEY LOVED IT! MY DAUGHTER SAID THEY ALL CRIED..IT IS NOW A COFFEE TABLE BOOK FOR ALL TO SEE AND READ..
DARLENE J. SELL FAIRFAX, MN.
 A picture is worth more... November 13, 2008
Certainly it's a challenge to write a book with the Holocaust as the backdrop, especially a love story. The fact that this is a true story makes this book compelling. It certainly adds a credibility to a story that is otherwise not that well developed. The diction is strong, the writing is strong, but the story is a little too bare for my taste. I felt like there were a few too many gaps, too many questions left for parents to answer. Perhaps used in conjunction with a class lesson on the Holocaust, or in a discussion about WWII, then I think it will be most appropriate.
In the meantime, my favorite part, by far, were the illustrations. They evoked a time, a place, and theme. They made the story come alive, which is something I prefer to have words do.
Angel Girl has a place on shelves, hopefully next to Diary of Anne Frank and Milkweed and others, so that it can be explored in context.
 For the younger, more mature kids... October 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Angel Girl" is a wonderfully illustrated book for kids who are of age to understand that life isn't all about themselves or getting what they want. This is a children's book for more mature kids I think, probably near the age of 10 or so, but definitely 5 and older.
The story is based on the experience of true to life couple Herman and Roma, the boy and the angel girl. While being a simplistic story of surviving a Nazi camp, it doesn't leave alot to imagination as there are mentions and detailed illustrations of starvation, work camps and soldiers with guns.
I'm not sure what age group this is for, but there definitely needs to be an adult present when reading this book, to further answer a kid's questions about all that is being written about and shown in the pictures. Although the book is an easy to read format with beautiful but haunting illustrations, much of the flow of the story cuts short to be happy ending.
It's a nice book, but kids need to know that not all stories from the Holocaust/true life are this simple or happy. I think that might need to be taught as well for kids. Sympathy is a wonderful life lesson, and that sometimes bad things happen to good people but also, that not all stories end happily.
I like the big page format, the colorful illustrations and simplistic style, but overall, a story that needs to be told with adult supervision and with an open, expected mind that any child who reads this will have alots of questions about what the story doesn't say and what some of the details in the illustrations imply.
WOW!!! What a Story! October 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
ANGEL GIRL is a uniquely original and true story about a young Holocaust survivor. Herman was only eleven years old when he was separated from his mother. He worked for years in a concentration camp in a small town in Germany. Night after night he missed his life and his family. After a visit in a dream from his mother, she assured him that an angel would save him. Two days later she arrived - staying on the other side of the fence holding a delicious red apple. Herman's angel girl showed up everyday for months, always bringing an apple. That daily food supplement helped him live to tell the tale. Upon his release he returned to their meeting place and thanked her. Believing that was the last time he would see her...
Friedman creatively told the tragedy of the Holocaust while ending with a love story. She was able to describe the harshness of the concentration camps without the brutal and disturbing details. When I read this story aloud to elementary students, they asked poignant questions about the horrible genocide. Parents and teachers should be ready to carefully explain this time in our history. The illustrations are moving and help to convey the rhythmic prose of the storyline. The book is written for children 4-8 but older kids and adults will see the unbelievable ending as a romantic love story. I strongly recommend, ANGEL GIRL.
Powerful story October 20, 2008
This book is a poignant one that will cause the reader to ask more questions and seek out answers about this era in world history. I found that after reading this with one of my childre--we had a longer honest discussion about WWII and the Holocaust.
This book is for kids, but I think that grade 3 or older children would be the best audience for the book given the subject matter. The youth reader can read this first, and then move on to Anne Frank's work.
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