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If I Should Die Before I Wake
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If I Should Die Before I Wake
Author: Han Nolan

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Publisher: Harcourt Paperbacks
Book Type: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780152046798 - ISBN-10: 0152046798
Publication Date: 5/1/2003
Pages: 320
Reading Level: Young Adult


Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover

Book Description:
Hilary hates Jews. As part of a neo-Nazi gang in her town, she's finally found a sense of belonging. But when she's critically injured in an accident, everything changes.
Somehow, in her mind, she has become Chana, a Jewish girl fighting for her own life in the ghettos and concentration camps of World War II.
Han Nolan offers powerful insight into one young woman's survival through the Holocaust and another's journey out of hatred and self-loathing.
Reader's guide and an interview with the author included.

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Marianna S. (Angeloudi) wrote on 11/20/2007...

5 member(s) found this review helpful.

A modern young teenager, Hilary, hates Jews, and joins a local Aryan Supremacy group. While in the hospital recovering from a motorcycle accident caused by her skin-head boyfriend, she is teleported back into Poland in the 1940's, into the mind of Chana, a young Jewish girl, as she gets moved into the Lodz ghetto. Chana's journey from normalcy to horror is chronicled by Hilary's observations, including the transport to the death camp at Auschwitz, where Chana and her few remaining relatives struggle to survive. This is a gut-wrenching book. I stayed up all night reading it!

Heather B. (Alwaysnblack) wrote on 9/8/2005...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

Awsome book!!! A little confuseing in the beginning but the end is great!!! Couldn't put down!


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Hannah H. (Apollyn) wrote on 6/2/2009...


This was a book I started reading without knowing anything about it prior. It starts a bit slow but once it gets into Chana's story it gets really hard to put down. It really gets into the nitty gritty about what happens in the camps and what it takes just to stay alive. Overall it was a good book, and I'm glad I read it.

Janice O. (skish) wrote on 5/6/2008...


I loved this book. It grabbed my attention from the first page and I literally could not put it down. It is about a Neo-Nazi teenage girl who is in a serious motorcycle accident. She is then taken to a Jewish hospital where she goes in and out of consciousness. While she is out, she lives the life of a young Jewish girl during the Holocaust. We learn the horrifying details of what happens to her and her family during this terrible time period.

I love history and admittedly don't remember much from school. I soaked up every detail and am very interested in learning more about the Holocaust now. I highly recommend this book.

Ashley B. (daredevilgirl013) wrote on 1/1/2008...


This book is a great read. It really takes you into the eyes of a girl who has to live through the war and the concentration camps. It makes you wonder what you would do to survive and if you could have the mindset to go through it.

The first chapter of the book focuses on Hilary who is all about the Nazi party and hurting Jews and she is from the present day. She gets invovled in an accident while coming back from one of her anti-Jewish acts and ends up in a Jewish hospital in a coma. In her coma she sees the life as Chana as a Jew.

The first chapter of the book is very very confusing, but skim past it if you need to, the rest of the book is very rich and detailed and a wonderful read. It will make you cry and cheer and feel the same emotions that the characters do.

Sara E. (froglegs) wrote on 8/12/2006...


As part of a neo-Nazi gang in her town, she's finally found a sense of belonging. But when she's critically injured in an accident, everything changes.
Lying near death in a Jewish hospital, Hilary finds herself bombarded by memories of a life in Poland. A life she never lived. Somehow, Hilary has become Chana, a Jewish girl fighting for her own life in World War II.


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