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Author Griffis, Molly Levite.

Title Simon says / Molly Levite Griffis.

Publication Info. Austin, Tex. : Eakin Press, [2004]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J GRIFFIS    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description vi, 263 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Postcard from the past -- Homecoming -- Room of his own -- New day -- New life -- Simon Isadore Green -- Universal knowledge -- Good-bye John Alan Feester -- Hello, Kenneth Stumbling Bear -- Truth of the trees -- Simon's secrets -- Best of times -- Worst of times -- Rachel to the rescue -- Truth at last -- Sneaking suspicions -- Justice swift and harsh -- Schwartz' on Sunday -- Simon's seder -- King of the Jews -- Wisdom of Solomon -- News and revelations -- Schwartz' many secrets -- Gus tells his secret -- Home from California -- Pen pals -- Letter from the past -- Anything is possible -- Author's note -- Taps -- Acknowledgments and commentary -- Glossary.
Summary Simon, a sixth-grader who had been sent from Germany to live with an American family when he was six years old, spends the summer of 1942 facing his feelings of abandonment and learning about antisemitism in his small Oklahoma town.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.6 8.0 107855.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Oklahoma -- Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
Jews -- United States -- Fiction.
Antisemitism -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Identity -- Fiction.
Oklahoma -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
ISBN 1571688366 hb
9781571688361 hb
1571688471 paperback
9781571688477 paperback
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