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Good Night, Maman Paperback – April 12, 2010

by Norma Fox Mazer (Author)
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Karin Levi’s world of family, school, and friends is torn apart when the German army occupies Paris in June of 1940. Karin and her brother, Marc, like Jews all over Europe, find themselves on the run, seeking safety wherever they can find it. When Marc obtains two coveted places aboard a ship bound for the United States, Karin knows that crossing the ocean means she may never see her beloved parents again. Yet she and Marc have little choice if they are to survive. Karin’s unforgettable story--revealing the little-known world of a handful of European refugees in World War II America--tells of survival, of growing up, and of love’s ability to endure even the most extraordinary circumstances.

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    10 - 13 years
  2. Part of series
    Harper Trophy Books (Paperback)
  3. Print length
    192 pages
  4. Language
    English
  5. Grade level
    5 - 7
  6. Lexile measure
    510L
  7. Dimensions
    5 x 0.48 x 7.75 inches
  8. Publication date
    April 12, 2010
  9. ISBN-10
    0152061738
  10. ISBN-13
    978-0152061739
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?Riveting. Stirringly understated.?Kirkus Reviews"Mazer writes with a simplicity that personalizes the history. Direct. Honest."Kirkus Reviews

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NORMA FOX MAZER is the award-winning author of many novels for young people. She has been honored with the Christopher Award, a Newbery Honor, the Edgar Allen Poe Award, and a National Book Award nomination. She and her husband, novelist Harry Mazer, divide their tiem between Jamesville, New York, and New York City.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarion Books; First Edition (April 12, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0152061738
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0152061739
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 10 - 13 years
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 510L
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 5 - 7
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.48 x 7.75 inches
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NORMA FOX MAZER is the award-winning author of many novels for young people. She has been honored with the Christopher Award, a Newbery Honor, the Edgar Allen Poe Award, and a National Book Award nomination. She and her husband, novelist Harry Mazer, divide their time between Jamesville, New York, and New York City.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully written underdog story!
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2019
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A very well written and believable underdog story of a young Jewish girl and her brother trying to escape the horrors of the Holocaust and hold on to each other as they lose everything else. Even against all odds, young Karin clings to hope and tries to remain optimistic through her tribulation. Her story is beautifully written through first person narrative and the sweet letters she writes to her mother. It made me smile and cry and hope...and everything in between. An excellent read for anyone, boy or girl, age 10 and up.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Quickly shipped for Summer Reading
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I choose this rating because I am reading it and it is quite interesting!!!!!! For those who like to slack of until September for Summer reading its quickly shipped being one of the best qualities as well as the story is historically interesting!!!!!!!
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M. Tanenbaum
5.0 out of 5 stars a moving story of a Jewish refugee in World War II
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2010
This moving novel by award-winning children's novelist Norma Fox Mazer (who sadly passed away in 2009) tells the story of Karin Levi, a 12-year old girl whose comfortable life is overturned when the Nazis occupy Paris in 1940. Karin, together with her mother and older brother, flee Nazi-occupied Paris and start a new life of constant fear, as they are first hidden in the countryside, and later escape into American-occupied Southern Italy (without their mother, who by this point in the narrative is too ill to travel).

The two children manage to secure passage on the Henry Gibbons, an actual ship filled with European refugees which came to the U.S. in 1944. Although the United States, like other countries around the world, largely turned its back on the desperate Jews of Europe, in 1944 FDR decided to permit transport of 1,000 refugees from Italy to the United States. Many but not all of those who sailed were Jews, as Roosevelt did not want the venture to be perceived as a "Jewish project."

The ship's occupants were sent to Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York, where they were put in a refugee camp surrounded by barbed wire. Mazer explains in an afterword that the 982 people on this ship, who came from 15 countries and ranged in age from an infant to an 80-year-old man, were the only group of refugees brought to America by the U.S. government during World War II. When the war ended, those "guests" were allowed by President Truman to stay in the United States.

As one might expect, Karin's adjustment to life in the refugee camp is not easy. Karin, who believes her mother may still be in hiding in France, pours out her heart in letters to her dear maman that she is unable to mail, not knowing where her mother might be. Her older brother Marc "became Maman," trying to provide routine and structure for his younger sister. But he doesn't want to talk about the past. He asks her "Why are you always thinking about things that are done with, Karin? It only makes you feel weak and unhappy." Gradually Karin begins to make friends with other girls at the camp, as well as an older couple, Mr. and Mrs. Stein, who remind her of her grandparents. Soon a girl named Peggy from the other side of the fence befriends her as well, helping her to learn to sound American, and when Karin finally is allowed to start school, Peggy is in her class. Karin is even able to spend her first American Thanksgiving at Peggy's home. But will Karin ever be reunited with her beloved mother?

This novel, published in 1999, would be an excellent book to read in conjunction with Is It Night or Day?, since both deal with young girls about the same age who leave Europe without their parents to begin life as refugees in America--one at the refugee camp in Oswego, the other with relatives in Chicago.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A touching story
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2017
This book shows the losses and gains that came from world war 2. That you have to keep your head held high even in sadness.
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Jennifer
4.0 out of 5 stars Loved the book
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2008
I first read this book when I was in the 7th grade for a book report....I'm now 21 and have been trying to remember the title of this book for so long because I loved it! It's such a good book because the characters are believable and you can feel their true emotions. read it!
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Lorraine Berry
5.0 out of 5 stars War through the eyes of an adolescent
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2000
Karin and Marc are two of the lucky ones: French Jews, they have managed to make the long trek to Italy and escape from the Nazis--and their fellow French--who have hounded them for years. And, they are even luckier when they manage to board ship for America, for a refugee center located in Oswego, New York.
Along the way to Italy, though, Karin and Marc are helped by several people. What is fascinating about this book is that it lays to rest the idea that nobody helped Jews at the same time that it demonstrates just how ambivalent, or even venal, some people were in offering such aid.
Once the two of them get to Oswego, they are incorporated into American daily life--school, friends, etc, with the exception that every night they must return to the base. It's a sort of limbo, and the residents of the camp are both grateful for their rescue and justifiably resentful of their treatment as semi-prisoners.
The best part of the book is Karin. Norma Fox Mazer has created a wonderful adolescent character who speaks to us in the voice of a woman-child who has been through so much. At times, she has flashes of such clear understanding, and the next, she's as confused as one would expect her to be. The author is to be commended for writing such a complex character and for shining a light on a complex topic.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Karin's Courage
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2002
This book is about Karin Levi, a young girl who survived the Holocaust. Karin and her family were forced to leave their home in France because of anti-Jewish terror. The German army occupied Paris, and Jewish-owned businesses were relinquished to non-Jewish people. Jews were banned from public facilities and were arrested. Karin's father was one of those who were arrested and eventually murdered. At the age of 12, Karin and her older brother Marc went into hiding with their mother for safety. Eventually, Karin and Marc got the opportunity to board a ship bound for America, but since their mother was too ill to travel, they had to leave her behind. Marc began to act as Karin's guardian once they arrived at the military base in New York, and they began their life there. They made many new friends and attended shcool, and then they contacted their aunt in California. She sent them money since she was too ill to visit, and later she sent for them to come live with her. Throughout the story, Karin wrote letters to her mother, although she could not send them since her mother was still in hiding. At the end of the story, Karin learned that her mother had died shortly after she and Marc left, and so she had to come to grips with the loss of her mother. This is a very touching story about a yougn girl facing adolescence during a time of great tribulation, and we recommend it for students in 6th through 8th grade.
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