ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2012 2012 Sydney Taylor Award "A powerful and poignant reminder that no person can live freely until all people can live freely." Lauren Myracle, author of Shine "Tackles the weighty issue of anti-Semitism with uncompromising clarity." Publishers Weekly

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised in the Historical Fiction category by the Langum Award for American Historical Fiction. It was recognised by the Sydney Taylor Book Award. It also was recognised by the Simon Wiesenthal once Upon a World Children's Book Award. It was recognised by the Skipping Stones Honor Award. Also it was recognised in the Fiction - YA category by the American Library Association Awards.

There are 144 pages in this book. This book was published 2019 by Cinco Puntos Press, U. S. .

Shirley Reva Vernick's interviews and feature articles have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, national newspapers, and the publications of Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Boston Universities. She also runs a popular storytelling website, storybee. org, which is used in schools, libraries, hospitals and homes all over the world. Shirley graduated from Cornell University, majoring in economics and nutrition, and is an alumna of the Radcliffe Writing Seminars. She grew up in the town where the blood libel happened, as did her father, whose family was directly victimized by it. She now lives with her husband, two daughters, and two frisky dogs in Western Massachusetts, where she has recently helped make her town a certified fair-trade community.