What the Night Sings | 
pickYA lit, this has been my fave class in school so far. And this book has definitely been my favorite that I‘ve been forced to read since the View From Saturday. Story of a Holocaust survivor through her music. HUGE fan of the illustrations used in this book as well.
pickTouching #youngadult novel about young people trying to pick what was left of their lives up and move forward, with no family left to guide them, after the Holocaust. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Book 232/265 8/27/19
pickBeautifully illustrated #YA novel about a musician and Holocaust survivor, Gerta. While it covers her experiences in Nazi Germany and several concentration camps, more of the book focuses on her life after liberation, as she and other survivors recover physically, search for relatives, make new connections, and wait in limbo for international governments to decide where they can go. A powerful story I don‘t see often. #hubchallenge19
About to start this, and - yikes! - this book is heavy! I‘m going to have big muscles by the time I‘m done with it. 💪
I‘m a junior high ELA teacher, and this is our teacher book club book this month. I‘m a sucker for a great historical fiction novel, so I‘m super excited to read this! #elateacher #teacher #bookclub #holocaust #historicalfiction #whatthenightsings #vesperstamper
pickBeautifully designed, in a hefty square format with inkwash illustrations, creamy paper stock & lots of white space. Wide leading makes it seem aimed at a younger audience, but it‘s definitely YA, dealing frankly with the horrors of the holocaust &—more gently—with sexual relations before & after marriage. Slight irritations (like continuity errors) but still a pick. Most enlightening is the way displaced people made their way to Palestine.
My favourite two-page spread. Illustrations in this text novel are by the author.
The viola‘s song is in a language no one knows; it reads from the alto clef, not the treble. It stays out of notice, but its absence is felt before it is named. It is the wisdom of the orchestra: the old woman who says almost nothing, except the one thing needed.
I didn‘t know until Lev told me: there are four words in Hebrew that mean “world,” and one of them means “hidden world.” He says that in each of us is a hidden world. Each of us IS a world. Each baby born, a world created, a possibility.
pickIt can be hard to review books about major horrific events in the world. This story takes place in a displaced persons camp after World War Two. It was well written and an interesting place to start telling a story about what happened to those who suffered at the hands of nazis.
Up again in the early morning with justonemorechapter-itis. Loving the latest by Vesper Stamper, What the Night Sings. Luh-huvving it.
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8 February books for historical fiction fans — not a royal in sight. See my blog for descriptions or look for the titles right here on Litsy. http://www.bethfishreads.com/2018/02/8-new-books-for-historical-fiction-fans.htm...
After everything she knew in the concentration camps, Gerta is liberated only to find herself completely alone, without her Papa, her music, or even her identity. In the displaced persons camp where she is staying, Gerta meets Lev, a fellow survivor who she just might be falling for. With a newfound Jewish identity she never knew she had, and a return to a life of music she thought she lost forever, Gerta must choose how to build a new future.
