Podcast #6: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

01/16/17 • 19 min

Dream Gardens: Talking Up the Children's Books We Love

An Interview with Priya Chhaya For my sixth Dream Gardens podcast, I interviewed historian and author Priya Chhaya about Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. It is a historical children’s novel about a young girl living in German occupied Denmark in 1943. She finds herself unexpectedly thrown into the dangerous world of the underground resistance when her … Continue reading Podcast #6: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry →

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