Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus journalist Antonio Iturbe
tells the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive
during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at
Auschwitz. Taken along with her mother and father from the Terezín ghetto in Prague Dita is
adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch
asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past
the guards she agrees. And so Dita becomes the librarian of Auschwitz. Out of one of the
darkest chapters of human history comes this extraordinary story of courage and hope. This
title has Common Core connections. Godwin Books
