The Berlin Boxing Club
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Call Number: Teen Book / Fiction / Historical / Sharenow, Rob
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch
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In 1936 Berlin, fourteen-year-old Karl Stern, considered Jewish despite a non-religious upbringing, learns to box from the legendary Max Schmeling while struggling with the realities of the Holocaust.
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Very good submitted by LFB922 on March 3, 2012, 11:06am This book was amazing! It really engages you until the end! It shows the hardships of Jews living in that time, but through the eyes of a teenager.
PUBLISHED
New York : HarperTeen, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 404 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 880
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780061579684
0061579688
9780061579691
0061579696
SUBJECTS
Schmeling, Max, -- 1905-2005 -- Fiction.
Family life -- Germany -- Fiction.
Boxing -- Fiction.
Nazis -- Fiction.
Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Fiction.
Berlin (Germany) -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction.
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.