Devils+Arithmetic

=//The Devil's Arithmetic// by Jane Yolen=

Summary
Hannah travels through time and learns about an important part of her family's history.

Reviews

 * **Tara's review:** //The Devil’s Arithmetic// is about a Jewish girl named Hannah who doesn’t appreciate her Jewish holidays and would rather spend time with friends than family. At her traditional Seder as she opened her apartment door to symbolically let in Elijah, and the next thing she knew she had traveled back in time into her Aunt’s friend Chaya’s body who had died in concentration camp. When the Jews get captured by the Nazis and taken to concentration camp, only Hannah knows what will happen, but no one listens to her because they all think she is still delirious due to a sickness Chaya had. She and her friends must struggle to survive watching their family and friends die in front of them. This is a good book because the author shows how to live in a concentration camp, and it is an addicting book because you will want to know what will happen next. This book has no pictures, but it uses a lot of detail to help the reader picture the story, and it is fun reading how much Hannah matures by the end of the book!
 * **Eva's review:** Hannah was a normal teenage girl who didn’t want to remember her Jewish traditions. Instead, she wanted to stay with her best friend on Easter and eat jelly beans. But when she opens the door for Elijah the prophet, something happened. On the way to a wedding, she gets taken away to a concentration camp by Nazis. The author made this book good because it has just the right amount of suspense. It is very realistic, as if it were a memoir.