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Format:	Book
Author:	Iturbe, Antonio, 1967- author
Title:	The librarian of Auschwitz / Antonio Iturbe ; translated by Lilit Žekulin Thwaites.
Publisher, Date:	New York, New York : Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2017. New York, NY : Square Fish, 2019. ©2017 ©2012
Description:	423 pages : maps ; 24 cm 423 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Summary:	Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the librarian of Auschwitz
Subjects:	Kraus, Dita, 1929- -- Fiction Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Fiction Concentration camps -- Fiction Books and reading -- Fiction Jews -- Czechoslovakia -- History -- Fiction Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czechoslovakia -- Fiction Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Fiction Young adult fiction Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1938-1945 -- Fiction Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction
Genre:	Historical fiction Biographical fiction War fiction
Other Author:	Thwaites, Lilit Žekulin, translator
Notes:	First published in Spain by Editorial Planeta in 2012 as: La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz. Maps on endpapers. 2019 softcover edition includes discussion questions. Includes bibliographical references (page 424). Translated from the Spanish. Nominated for the Pacific Northwest Library Association 2020 Young Reader’s Choice Awards for the Intermediate Division (Grades 7-9).
LCCN:	2017034236
ISBN:	9781250258038 (softcover) 9781627796187 (hardcover) 9781529104776 (softcover) 9781250211682 (softcover)
System Availability:	35
Current Holds:	1
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Control Number:	1622295
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