The Upstairs Room
by Johanna Reiss
Newbery Honor 1973 – for author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children
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” I was lucky enough to have her as my Dutch teacher, and she lived only a couple of blocks from me in the East Village. She was Jewish and had survived the war with one of her sisters by hiding with a farmer in the eastern Netherlands. Her book about that, The Upstairs Room, written for children, won a Newbery Honor. I like to think of it as Anne Frank but with a less sad ending.” Read more...
Sophie Roell, Journalist
