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.

Author: Haya Leah Molnar
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Published: 03/30/2010
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780374318406

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

Award: Sydney Taylor Book Award - Notable
Award: Cybils - Finalist
Award: National Jewish Book Award - Winner

Review Citation(s):
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

About the Author

Haya Leah Molnar lives in New York City. This is her first book.

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