The Devil's Arithmetic is by Jane Yolen. Hannah can't understand why her family keeps talking about the Holocaust. After all it was a long time ago and can't have any meaning for today can it? Then, during a Passover Seder, Hannah is transported to 1940s Poland. Everyone thinks that she is a girl named Chaya. She is captured by the Nazis and taken to a death camp, where she meets Rivka. As the door to the gas chamber closes behind her, she returns to the present with a new understanding of her family and the importance of remembering.
Ratings: 7th grade - 10 out of 10.
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