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    Is It Night or Day?: A Novel of Immigration and Survival, 1938-1942
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    Is It Night or Day?: A Novel of Immigration and Survival, 1938-1942
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    Is It Night or Day?: A Novel of Immigration and Survival, 1938-1942

    By Fern Schumer Chapman

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    It's 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move from the tiny German village she's lived in all her life to a place that seems as foreign as the moon: Chicago, Illinois. And she will be doing it alone. This dramatic and chilling novel about one girl's escape from Hitler's Germany was inspired by the experiences of the author's mother, one of twelve hundred children rescued by Americans as part of the One Thousand Children project.

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    Is It Night or Day? is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMar 16, 2010
    ISBN9781429934138
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    Is It Night or Day?: A Novel of Immigration and Survival, 1938-1942
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    Fern Schumer Chapman

    Chicago-based author Fern Schumer Chapman has written several award-winning books. Viking/Penguin released her most recent work, BROTHERS, SISTERS, STRANGERS: Sibling Estrangement and the Road to Reconciliation, in 2021. She writes a blog for psychologytoday.com, and some of her posts are compiled in her latest work, THE SIBLING ESTRANGEMENT JOURNAL: A Guided Exploration of Your Experiences through Writing. Her memoir, MOTHERLAND, is a popular choice for book clubs, and IS IT NIGHT OR DAY? is read in many middle and high school classes. Twice, Oprah shows have featured her work.

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    • 3/5
      Decent, but forgettable.
    • 4/5
      This author has written other books, on this subject, which would be more geared to adults, THIS would be enlightening and should be required reading for teens.Edith was considered to be one of the lucky ones who was able to escape the horrors of WW2 and move to the U.S., part of a large group shipped here. Torn from the comfort of loved ones, homes, lives they knew and sent to an unknown land where an unknown language was spoken, and put in homes with unknown 'new family'. To grow up with so many unanswered questions, to be so misunderstood was more psychologically damaging than realized at the time. Yes, lives were saved but as what mental cost? Yet better to live like this than to be taken by cattle cars to their deaths.THIS book was written from Ediths point of view as a 10 year old and the following years.

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    • 4/5
      Is It Night or Day? is a beautifully written and touching story for YA readers set during World War II. Fern Schumer Chapman tells mother's story of how she was sent to America by her parents to have her best chance at life. This novel is an excellent choice for students studying World War II, particularly because it brings to life America's One Thousand Children project; a virtually unheard of, but heroic and extraordinary humanitarian effort to save German children during the Nazi regime.Edith's story, like all wartime stories, is tragic. But the story is told through the eyes of a little girl with hope, strength, and an inspiring resilience. The language and content is clean, though the novel does mention suicide. Edith's mother becomes depressed early in the novel and is caught by Edith stringing a rope in the attic. Ultimately, this is not how her mother dies, but this moment in the plot is a notable content flag.Is It Night or Day? offers readers a unique view into the effects of the war on German and Jewish people. I very much enjoyed reading this novel and recommend it for both educational and personal uses. My copy of the book includes bonus material, including a discussion guide and a real story of how Edith and another emigrant child are reunited after the novel was published.4 Stars

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    • 4/5
      Chapman tells a fictionalized version of her mother's story of coming to America from Germany. She was part of a rescue program that brought Jewish children from Germany to the U.S. in the late 1930s. Edith lives with her uncle's family in Chicago and has a tough time dealing with the separation from her family and figuring out life in America.

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    • 4/5
      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.

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    • 3/5
      This was a compelling read. It is definitely worth adding to the school's Holocaust fiction section.