Jane Yolen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seven-year-old Miriam places her baby brother's basket in the Nile River, watches the Pharoah's daughter draw him out and name him Moses, and ponders a vision of other water parting. Includes note on the biblical story on which this is based.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In Poland in the 1940s, the lives of twins Chaim and Gittel feel like a fairy tale torn apart as they must rely on each other to endure life in a ghetto and the horrors of a concentration camp where they lose everything but each other.