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    <body><![CDATA[Twelve year old Hannah is sick of spending Passover 'remembering' the past with her relatives. During the Passover Seder, she is transported to 1942 Poland, where she becomes Chaya (her Hebrew name), the girl she was named for. In this time, she is eventually sent to a concentration camp, where the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42181003">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yolen employs a &quot;Magic Tree House&quot; trope to move her main character, Hannah, a bored American thirteen-year-old at her family's Seder dinner, through time, space and language, and it comes off as hokey.  Once Hannah becomes Chaya, an orphan living in a Polish village in 1942, though, this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40036849">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anyone and everyone should read this book! It's a very fast read because it was written for children but it tells a beautiful story and has a great twist in the end. The Devil's Arithmetic is about a young Jewish girl who doesn't quite understand her family's past.  She finds Jewish holidays and cel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37737106">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This touching book uses time travel to help one young girl understand her Jewish heritage. One of the main themes is not to forget the past but learn from it.  These memories include remembering the Holocaust.<br/><br/>The book opens with Hannah being reminded why she celebrates Passover.  &quot;P...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41242370">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[   This was really sad and scary. But so REALISTIC!! It's terrifying to think that it acually would happen! (Not the time traveling, the concentration camp.)<br/><br/>   It is about a Jewish girl, Hannah, who is at a passover dinner, when she goes through a door and finds herself in 1942. Everyone...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39315933">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I could say I liked this book. I thought I would. I know it's critically acclaimed and a well-known story. But it left me with a bad taste in my mouth.<br/><br/>The book is meant to educate young people about the Holocaust, but it had a lot of historical inaccuracies. The idyllic shtetl wor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77553243">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I try not to cry in movies or books. Movies are more disastrous because there are tons of people to see you weepy and red-eyed. With books you can hide out for awhile, but still, if you're like me, that puffy giveaway skin around my eyes last for at least 12 hours.<br/><br/>But reading this book i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55325632">more...</a>]]></body>
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