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Mapping the Bones
Mapping the Bones | Jane Yolen
From the legendary author of The Devil's Arithmetic, Jane Yolen, comes her first Holocaust novel in nearly thirty years. Influenced by Dr. Mengele's sadistic experimentations, this story follows twins as they travel from the Lodz ghetto, to the partisans in the forest, to a horrific concentration camp where they lose everything but each other. The year is 1942, and Chaim and Gittel, Polish twins, are forced from their beautiful home and made to live in the Lodz Ghetto. Their family's cramped quarters are awful, but when even those dire circumstances become too dangerous, their parents decide to make for the nearby Lagiewniki Forest, where partisan fighters are trying to shepherd Jews to freedom in Russia. The partisans take Chaim and Gittel, with promises that their parents will catch up -- but soon, everything goes wrong. Their small band of fighters is caught and killed. Chaim, Gittel, and their two friends are left alive, only to be sent off to Sobanek concentration camp. Chaim is quiet, a poet, and the twins often communicate through wordless exchanges of shared looks and their own invented sign language. But when they reach Sobanek, with its squalid conditions, rampant disease, and a building with a belching chimney that everyone is scared to so much as look at, the bond between Chaim and Gittel, once a source of strength, becomes a burden. For there is a doctor there looking to experiment on twins, and what he has in store for them is a horror they dare not imagine. This gut-wrenching story about the choices we make, the values we hold -- and the ties that bind us all together--adds a story never told before in young adult literature to the body of work written about teens during World War II.
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KamrynWaites
Mapping the Bones | Jane Yolen

“But now the slow drip drip of despair, like acid on iron, had begun to eat away that hope”

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KamrynWaites
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Having belief is for children but at the age of 14 they are considered adults.

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KamrynWaites
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Sad book about the Holocaust. This book is full of brutality and despair. Children had to grow up quickly to help provide for their families in fear of the Nazis. This book keeps you on your toes.

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kierstenkaplan
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This book was published in 2018. It is placed in 1942 in Poland which a Jewish family that was relocated during the Holocaust. I read the first chapter and thought it will be a good book. It was definitely sad though.

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kierstenkaplan
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I really liked the start of the book but it was definitely sad.

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kierstenkaplan
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“Chaim took a deep breath and caught up with everyone already crowding into the small living room”

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delaneylabelle23
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“After curfew,all jews-indeed everyone but the Nazi soldiers-had to be indoors,or they risked imprisonment”

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delaneylabelle23
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i like how this is a story of poetry and strength

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delaneylabelle23
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I like this book. I think this book has a lot of meaning. The book is about these sisters that go into a concentration camp. I think this book is worth the read. It is very emotional.

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emmadomo
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Twins whose lives feel like a fairy tale torn apart, with evil witches, forbidden forests, and dangerous ovens looming on the horizon

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Brother and sister meaningful relationship

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emmadomo
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This is a really great speculative genre piece about a Jewish family forced into the ghetto to live while under the rule of the Nazis. The young boy, Chaim, is tied to his journal and expressing his feelings of fear and uncertainty.

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I would not consider this a strict retelling of Hansel and Gretel and had someone told me beforehand this #YA Holocaust historical fiction was, I could not have imagined it. However, the concept worked fairly well. Chaim‘s remembrance poems played a special part in the story for me.

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Cinfhen This book sounds really painful to read 😢😢 Holocaust stories involving children especially twins is especially difficult 5y
Chrissyreadit Jane Yolen is one of my favorite authors, but I agree with @Cinfhen - I‘m not sure I could read this. I might never stop crying....ever. 5y
megnews @Cinfhen @Chrissyreadit definitely difficult parts. A portion of the book goes into the Resistance though and that was good to read. 5y
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Hansel & Gretel retelling set in WWII, so twins and experimentations, and I can‘t even. I find these types of books very tough. Argh. #currentlyreading #preview #julyrelease2018🇦🇺 #war #retelling #holocaust

rather_be_reading sounds interesting tho 6y
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LibrarianRyan
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How excited am I for this book. I love Jane Yolanda. She wrote the heart breakers of my childhood. The Devils Arithmetic anyone? And now a new Holocaust story. I am prepared for this wonderful author to rip my heart out again.

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Its 1942, and Chaim and Gittel, Polish twins, no longer have a choice but leaving for the nearby Lagiewniki Forest, where partisan fighters are trying to shepherd Jews to freedom in Russia.

Soon everything goes wrong. Their group is caught and killed. Chaim, Gittel are left alive, only to be sent off to Sobanek concentration camp. There is a doctor there looking to experiment on twins, and what he has in store is a horror they dare not imagine.

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