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It Rained Warm Bread

by Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet

Illustrator: Lea Lyon

Ages: 12+

Published: 2019

Publisher: Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt BFYR/Macmillan

ISBN: 978-1-250-16572-5

Keywords: survival, Holocaust, Family

The author and her poet collaborator retell her Polish-Jewish father's survival story in the years he and his family were imprisoned in Nazi labor and concentration camps. Told in free verse. Intermittent sepia illustrations.