Book Description
for The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
A teenager becomes the guardian for her brothers within the Lodz ghetto. She is deported to Auschwitz where her original poetry helps her to maintain her sanity and selfhood. A stark autobiographical memoir illuminates the importance of personal dignity reinforced by acts of bravery on behalf of others. (Age 14 and older)
CCBC Choices 1986. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1986. Used with permission.
