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Daniel Half Human

Daniel Half Human
Daniel Half Human
And the Good Nazi  
By David Chotjewitz
Translated by: Doris Orgel
This edition: Mass Market Paperback, 336 pages
Ages: 12 and up
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Awards and Nominations

  • AJL Sydney Talylor Silver Medal
  • ALA Best Books For Young Adults
  • ALA Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book
  • ALA Notable Children's Books
  • Black Eyed Susan Book Award Master List (MD)
  • California Young Reader Medal Nominee
  • CCBC Choices (Cooperative Children's Book Council)
  • Great Lakes Great Books Master List (MI)
  • Iowa Teen Award Master List
  • IRA Notable Books for a Global Society
  • Kirkus Editor's Choice
  • KSRC Senior High School Titles - Top Pick
  • NYPL "Books for the Teen Age"
  • PSLA Fiction List
  • Texas Tayshas Reading List
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Description

At the dawn of Hitler's rise to power in Germany in 1933 and a period of the most brutal, aggressive anti-Semitism the world has ever seen, two boys swear eternal brotherhood by slitting their wrists and mingling their blood. Having experienced so much together, even a night in jail after painting a swastika on a wall in the hated Communist section of Hamburg, Daniel and Armin had become the best of friends.

But then, with the scar on his wrist still healing, Daniel receives some life-altering news: He is half-Jewish, and as such, half-hated by a growing number of neighbors, teachers, and friends. Quickly, he decides to keep his identity a secret, conspiring with Armin to join the Hitler Youth -- but only one of them can, and will, join, with terrible consequences.

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"An outstanding addition to the large body of World War II/Holocaust fiction."

-- School Library Journal

"No book stages Kristallnacht more chillingly."

-- The Horn Book
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