Number the Stars Study Guide

Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen races her best friend, Ellen, down the residential streets of Copenhagen on their way home from school. Five-year-old Kirsti, Annemarie's younger sister, becomes irritated because she can't keep up with the older girls. As Annemarie and Ellen round a corner, they are ordered to halt by two German soldiers holding rifles. Kirsti is not frightened; the German soldiers have been in Copenhagen for three years now, and, to Kirsti, they seem a normal part of the landscape. (read more)