Number the Stars

What is the sign of a really good book?  It is when you don't want to put it down.  That was the case this week when students read chapters 11 through 14 in Number the Stars.  Lois Lowry grabs the reader and keeps you reading.  The book shows us a wonderful example of a young girl, an ordinary person, being brave not only to save her best friend's life, but the lives of several other people she doesn't even know.  The question for all of us is, would we rise to the occasion and be brave if the situation arose?