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Ashes

by Kathryn Lasky

Ages: 12+

Published: 2010

Publisher: Viking

ISBN: 978-0-670-01157-5

Keywords: World War II

Gaby, a fictional neighbor of Albert Einstein, but not Jewish herself, sees the growing effects of anti-Semitism in her school, in her life, and in 1932 Berlin.