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The story I chose for this Holocaust-based book report is Number The Stars written by Lois Lowry. Its genre is historical/fiction but it's based on a true story of Annelise Platt, one of Lois Lowry's best friends, who witnessed a similar adventure. This book is about a ten-year old girl named Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen during the war. Their peaceful town of Copenhagen is now filled with food shortages, Nazi …

…the boat in the first place so she couldn't walk.) Annemarie gets the napkin to the boat being stopped only once. While she was stopped, the Nazis searched her and did find the napkin but, as it looked like just a napkin, she was left to continue to the boat. She traveled back home fine and from then on, lived a peaceful life once again, but stopped to think of Ellen and her family often.