Is it night or day? / Fern Schumer Chapman.

Author: Chapman, Fern Schumer.

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010.

ISBN: 9780374177447
0374177449

Description: 205 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject: Jewish refugees Fiction.
Jews Germany Fiction.
Jews United States Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue Fiction.
Refugees, Jewish Juvenile fiction.
Jews Germany Juvenile fiction.
Jews United States Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue Juvenile fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) History 20th century Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) History 20th century Juvenile fiction.

Summary: In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known. Based on the author's mother's experience, includes an afterword about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to safety during World War II.