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Thought of High Windows


School year: Lower 6th, Upper 6th, Year 10, Year 11, Year 8, Year 9

No. of pages 176

Published: 2004

Great for age 7-17 years

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When trapped or frightened, Esther sees windows --- and flying out of them --- as her only salvation. Young, Jewish and on the run from the Nazis, Esther is one of a group of children who manage to flee Germany for Belgium and then France at the beginning of World War II. Despite her perilous situation, she frets over her frumpy looks, is ridiculed by the popular girls and loves a boy who --- at the best of times --- treats her like a sister. As the war rages on and Esther bears witness to its horrors, her pain and isolation grow --- until only the highest windows bring the promise of release.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published in 2004 by Kids Can Press .

Lynne Kositsky is an award-winning poet and young adult author whose work includes The Thought of High Windows, Claire by Moonlight, and the Rachel books for the Our Canadian Girl series. Lynne lives in Toronto with her husband and two shelties.

 

This book has been nominated for the following award:

Indiefab Award - Fiction - YA
This book was recognised in the Fiction - YA category by the Indiefab Award.

"An original, viscerally moving, and memorable book."

 

Superb, wrenching Holocaust fiction.

 

Kositsky's focus on human imperfection and quotidian detail poignantly reminds readers that the Holocaust - in all it inhumanity - happened to real human beings.

 

Kositsky deftly handles the irony of Esther's maturation - that her girlhood tendency towards self-destructive acts is finally overcome by horrors greater than low self-esteem. The conclusion, which finds Esther committed to the Resistance and the war still raging, forces readers to supply their own ending; cautiously hopeful is as good as it gets.

 

Kositsky has created an engaging, introspective narrator, and she uses detail to define even minor characters clearly. This is a mature novel, honest about the dangers and uncertainties of life for Jews during World War ll.

 

Kositsky s focus on human imperfection and quotidian detail poignantly reminds readers that the Holocaust - in all it inhumanity - happened to real human beings."

 

Kositsky deftly handles the irony of Esther s maturation - that her girlhood tendency towards self-destructive acts is finally overcome by horrors greater than low self-esteem. The conclusion, which finds Esther committed to the Resistance and the war still raging, forces readers to supply their own ending; cautiously hopeful is as good as it gets."