The Plum Tree
Title | The Plum Tree PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Marie Wiseman |
Publisher | Kensington Publishing Corporation |
Pages | 419 |
Release | 2020-01-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 149673002X |
A deeply moving and masterfully written story of human resilience and enduring love, The Plum Tree follows a young German woman through the chaos of World War II and its aftermath. "Bloom where you're planted," is the advice Christine B lz receives from her beloved Oma. But seventeen-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It's a world she's begun to glimpse through music, books--and through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for. Yet the future she and Isaac dream of sharing faces greater challenges than their difference in stations. In the fall of 1938, Germany is changing rapidly under Hitler's regime. Anti-Jewish posters are everywhere, dissenting talk is silenced, and a new law forbids Christine from returning to her job--and from having any relationship with Isaac. In the months and years that follow, Christine will confront the Gestapo's wrath and the horrors of Dachau, desperate to be with the man she loves, to survive--and finally, to speak out. "Wiseman eschews the genre's usual military conflicts of daily life during wartime, lending an intimate and compelling poignancy to this intriguing debut." --Publishers Weekly "Ellen Marie Wiseman weaves a story of intrigue, terror, and love from a perspective not often seen in Holocaust novels." --Jewish Book World
The Plum Trees: A Novel
Title | The Plum Trees: A Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Victoria Shorr |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2021-03-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0393540863 |
A poignant tale about one woman’s quest to recover her family’s history, and a story of loss and survival during the Holocaust. Consie is home for a funeral when she stumbles upon a family letter sent from Germany in 1945, which contains staggering news: Consie’s great-uncle Hermann, who was transported to Auschwitz with his wife and three daughters, might have escaped. This seems improbable to Consie. Did people escape from Auschwitz? Could her great-uncle have been among them? What happened to Hermann? Did anyone know? These questions are at the root of Consie’s excavation of her family’s history as she seeks, seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, to discover what happened to Hermann. The Plum Trees follows Consie as she draws on oral testimonies, historical records, and more to construct a visceral account of the lives of Hermann, his wife, and their daughters from the happy days in prewar Czechoslovakia through their internment in Auschwitz and the end of World War II. The Plum Trees is a powerful, intimate reckoning with the past.
The Sugar-Plum Tree and Other Verses
Title | The Sugar-Plum Tree and Other Verses PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene Field |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0486476758 |
Presents illustrated versions of the title poem and seven others, including "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" and "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod."
Under the Great Plum Tree
Title | Under the Great Plum Tree PDF eBook |
Author | Sufiya Ahmed |
Publisher | One Story, Many Voices |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2019-10-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781910328460 |
A tale of friendship and courage from the Panchatantra, an ancient Indian collection of animal fables dated to 300 BCE.An unlikely friendship between Miss Bandari and Mr Magarmach forms when the pair meet under the great plum tree, deep in the heart of India. Mr Magarmach is old and his hunting days are over but Miss Bandari loves hearing his stories as they munch plums together. One day their friendship tested but with courage, trust and forgiveness they discover that living happily together tastes just as sweet as Miss Bandari's golden plums. The story of the monkey and the crocodile is a fable from the Panchatantra, an ancient Indian collection of animal fables dated to 300 BCE. But it's a tale from around the world and versions can be found in Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, China, Japan and the Caribbean.
The Day They Shook the Plum Tree
Title | The Day They Shook the Plum Tree PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur H. Lewis |
Publisher | Buccaneer Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780899666006 |
Once I was a Plum Tree
Title | Once I was a Plum Tree PDF eBook |
Author | Johanna Hurwitz |
Publisher | HarperTrophy |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1992-10-21 |
Genre | Children's stories, American |
ISBN | 9780688118488 |
Increasingly aware of the differences between her family, who are nonobservant Jews, and their Catholic neighbors, 10-year-old Gerry Flam begins to investigate her heritage.
My Tree
Title | My Tree PDF eBook |
Author | Hope Lim |
Publisher | Holiday House |
Pages | 35 |
Release | 2021-05-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0823443388 |
When a young boy's beloved plum tree falls in a storm, he feels like he's lost both a friend and a connection to his old home. A young boy, recently arrived from Korea, finds a glorious plum tree in his new backyard. It reminds him of a tree his family had back home, and he names it "Plumee" for the deep purple plums on its branches. Whenever the boy is homesick, he knows he can take shelter in Plumee's tall branches. And when a storm brings the old tree down, he and his friends have all kinds of adventures on its branches, as it becomes a dragon, a treehouse, and a ship in their imaginations. But soon it's time to say goodbye when the remains of the tree are taken away. Before long, a new plum tree is planted, new blossoms bloom, and a new friendship takes root. A South Korean immigrant herself, Hope Lim brings her perspective on the struggle for child immigrants to feel at home to bear through spare, poetic text, perfectly matched by soft, lyrical illustrations by Korean artist Il Sung Na. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection