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Speed of Light
Speed of Light
Author: Sybil Rosen
A summer of hatred...discoveryEleven-year-old Audrey Ina has lived in the town of Blue Gap all her life, and thinks she knows everyone in it and has nothing to fear. It's 1956, eleven years after Hitler's defeat, and nobody seems to even remember the war -- except for Audrey's Tante Pesel, who survived Auschwitz but is still unable to tal...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780689841514
ISBN-10: 0689841515
Publication Date: 3/1/2001
Pages: 176
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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4.5 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Aladdin
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Racism, anti-Semitism, the Jewish Holocaust, the start of the Civil Rights Movement, set in a small Southern town in the 1950s, and seen through the eyes of a feisty girl, who is interested in the theories of Albert Einstein. A fairly quick read. A juvenile "To Kill a Mockingbird," in fact. Definitely recommended.

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