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The extra / Kathryn Lasky.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: PZ7.L3274 E98 2013

Overview

Summary: Is the chance to serve as an extra for Hitler's favorite filmmaker a chance at life -- or a detour on the path to inevitable extermination? In this chilling but ultimately uplifting novel, Kathryn Lasky imagines the lives of the Gypsies who worked as extras for the real Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, giving readers a story of survival unlike any other.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Lasky, Kathryn, author.
Published: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2013
Edition: First edition

Physical Details

Language: English
ISBN: 9780763639723
0763639729
Physical Description: 314 pages ; 22 cm

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Romanies--Juvenile fiction. Extras (Actors)--Juvenile fiction. Romani Genocide, 1939-1945--Juvenile fiction. Nazi concentration camps--Juvenile fiction. Internment camps--Juvenile fiction. Historical fiction. Fiction.

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