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

ISBN-13:	9780374318406
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	03/30/2010
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	517,229
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.30(d)
Lexile:	870L (what's this?)
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

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.