Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania

Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist RomaniaEva Zimmermann is eight years old, and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest, a city that is changing in ever more frightening ways. Eva's family, full of eccentric and opinionated adults, will do absolutely anything to keep her safe even if it means hiding her identity from her. With razor sharp depictions of her animated relatives, Haya Leah Molnar's memoir of her childhood captures with

Eva Zimmermann is eight years old, and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest, a city that is changing in ever more frightening ways. Eva's family, full of eccentric and opinionated adults, will do absolutely anything to keep her safe--even if it means hiding her identity from her. With razor-sharp depictions of her animated relatives, Haya Leah Molnar's memoir of her childhood captures with touching precocity the very adult realities of living behind the iron curtain.

Under a Red Sky is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 03/30/2010
ISBN: 9780374318406
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.20d
Award: Sydney Taylor Book Award - Notable
Award: National Jewish Book Award - Winner
Award: Cybils - Finalist

Review Citations: Booklist 02/15/2010 pg. 47
Kirkus Review - Children 04/01/2010
Publishers Weekly 03/29/2010 pg. 61
School Library Journal 05/01/2010 pg. 134
Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2010 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2010 - Recommended, Satisfactory

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 136414 / Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania
Reading Level: 5.4 / Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus / Point Value: 12