Content: G
BUYING ADVISORY: MS - ESSENTIAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH
Someone drew a giant swastika on a wall at Chokecherry Midde School. As the only Jewish student, 13 yo Dana is getting way too many questions from everyone when she just wants to lay low until her parents finish their dig and move on to a new town and a new school. Then Link - a middle school BMOC, a jokester, a pain in Dana’s side – finds out that his grandmother was hidden in an orphanage as a child to escape the Holocaust and wants Dana help and support as he embraces studying for his bar mitzvah, even at this late date. The school student council, in response to the swastika incident and the other swastikas that have followed, have decided they are going to try to make a paper chain 6 million links long to show their fellow students how much 6 million means. When a prominent blogger picks up the story and the whole world knows what the kids are trying to do. When the truth comes out about the identity of the original swastika vandal, the fallout will be higher than can be imagined.
While the pieces of Korman’s book paints a complicated picture, he has managed to weave them together with his signature humor and empathy. Very much a must read!
Cindy, Library Teacher, MLS
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