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ELEANOR'S STORY
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Written by
Eleanor Ramrath Garner
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Paperback: $9.95
ISBN: 978-1-56145-296-5
Total Pages: 224
Size: 6 x 8 1/2
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Young Adult, ages 12-16/Nonfiction/History/Memoir
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Eleanor Ramrath Garner attended Boston University, and pursued a career as a permissions editor for textbook publishers for many years. In addition to being a published non-fiction writer, Garner is an exhibited artist. She lives in California.
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AN AMERICAN GIRL IN HITLER'S GERMANY
A compelling and evocative story that immerses readers in the daily struggles of surviving World War II.
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Accelerated Reader & Reading Counts Tests:
Reading Counts Test #: Q19196
Reading Counts Level: 6.4
AR Quiz#: 32276
AR Reading Level: 6.4
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ELEANOR'S STORY IS THE DRAMATIC autobiography of Eleanor Ramrath Garner's youth, growing up as an American caught in World War II Berlin. It's a story of trying to maintain stability, hope, and identity in a world of terror and contrasts.
During the Great Depression, when she is nine, Eleanor's family moves from her beloved America to Germany, where her father has been offered a good job. But war breaks out as her family is crossing the Atlantic, and they cannot return to the United States.
Eleanor tries to maintain her American identity as she feels herself pulled into the turbulent life roiling around her. She fervently hopes for an Allied victory, yet for years she must try to survive the Allied bombs shattering her neighborhood. Her family faces separations, bombings, hunger, the final fierce battle for Berlin, the Russian invasion, and the terrors of Soviet occupancy.
This compelling story immerses us in the daily struggles of surviving World War II as a civilian. It puts a very human face on the horrors of war and helps us understand that each casualty of war is a person, not a number.
Click here for an informative teacher's guide to Eleanor's Story.
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Reviews
* STARRED REVIEW *
"This powerful coming-of-age tale is told with intensity and also with the freshness of teenage years remembered: there are repeated brutal bombings and countless brushes with death; there are also friends, holiday celebrations, and two babies born to the family during the war, who engage Eleanor's love and protection. There's also a much anticipated return to the U. S. It all coalesces into a must-have memoir about an aspect of wartime survival not often written about in children's literature."Booklist "This memoir is outstanding. More than just a chronicle of dates and places, it shows the author to be a sensitive and intelligent woman with a gift for recalling her fears, childhood conflicts, triumphs, and losses. There is an immediacy and power in her recollections. Her exchanges with a harsh, sometimes cruel father are of particular interest. We can be thankful that she chose to relive painful memories and share this story."VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates)
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Awards
* 2000 YALSA Best Books for Young Adults
* 2000 IRA/CBC Children's Book Award
* 2000 IRA Teacher's Choice
* 2001 IRA Young Adults' Choice
* 2000 NYPL Books for the Teen Age
* 2000 VOYA Nonfiction Honor List
* 2000 NCSS/CBC Notable Trade Books for Young People in the Field of Social Studies
* 2001 CBC Children's Books Mean Business
* 2001 CBC Not Just For Children Anymore!
* 1999 San Diego Book Award for Children's Nonfiction
* Masterlist, 2003-2004 Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award
* 2006 California Collections
* Nominee, 2001 Garden State (NJ) Teen Book Award
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