Bibliograph

The plum tree, Ellen Marie Wiseman

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The plum tree, Ellen Marie Wiseman

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The plum tree

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

878113057

Responsibility statement

Ellen Marie Wiseman

Summary

"Bloom where you're planted," is the advice Christine B'lz receives from her beloved Oma. But seventeen-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It's a world she's begun to glimpse through music, books -- and through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for. Yet the future she and Isaac dream of sharing faces greater challenges than their difference in stations. In the fall of 1938, Germany is changing rapidly under Hitler's regime. Anti-Jewish posters are everywhere, dissenting talk is silenced, and a new law forbids Christine from returning to her job -- and from having any relationship with Isaac. In the months and years that follow, Christine will confront the Gestapo's wrath and the horrors of Dachau, desperate to be with the man she loves, to survive, and finally, to speak out

Table Of Contents

Coal RiverAUTHOR'S NOTE; A READING GROUP GUIDE -- THE PLUM TREE; Discussion Questions

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