I'm a Weed: One Girl's Story of the Holocaust
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I'm a Weed: One Girl's Story of the Holocaust (2005) by Stephanie Apruzese. It is a historical-fiction book told from the view point of Elaine Bowers, a 15-year-old girl living in Poland in 1939. This book is unique from others because it describes death from first-person point of view.
Quotes
"Cooking is one of my most favorite things in the world."
"I find myself in the library nearly every week."
"Recently I have had a new view of boys. They look, well, different."
"I went to bed on a full happy stomach and heart."
"I had no need for a recipe."
"I've been thinking about Harvey way too much."
"My friends are very loyal. I'm lucky to have such wonderful friends."
"Most of my friends are Christian, so they'd be in the Christian cemetary!"
"But I know that if he (Hitler) got to know me and my family he'd like us."
"I almost had a heart attack as one of them pulled Nora away from Mother."
"She was dead... DEAD!"
"Jewish kids can't go to school."
"Our lives are in the hands of our deadly enemies."
"What did we do wrong?"
"But then they threw them right into my face! It hurt, and with egg yolk and white dripping down my face, I jumped down off the window sill and shook my fist at them."
"They chopped the other leg off with an ax."
"To them he's (Hitler is) God."
"I have eliminated the idea that we are going someplace good."
"I feel like some sort of animal with large teeth is tearing at the inside of my stomach."
"Then I felt it. The pain..."
"Blood was seeping out of my earlobes..."
"The pain is gone forever..."
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