# Anna and the Swallow Man

**Author:** Gavriel Savit
**Grade range:** Grades 3–10
**First published:** 2016
**Page count:** 242
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9780553522075`
**ISBN-10:** `0553522078`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/anna-and-the-swallow-man
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A New York Times Bestseller A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year A Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book Winner of the Indies Choice Book Award Winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award "Exquisite." —The Wall Street Journal "This is masterly storytelling." —The New York Times Book Review A stunning, beautiful, and ambitious debut novel set in Poland during the Second World War perfect for readers of All the Light We Cannot See and The Book Thief. Kraków, 1939. A million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. This is no place to grow up. Anna Łania is just seven years old when the Germans take her father, a linguistics professor, during their purge of intellectuals in Poland. She’s alone. And then Anna meets the Swallow Man. He is a mystery, strange and

## Where this book is assigned

### Odyssey Award (Best Audiobook)

- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2017 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)
- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2017 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2017 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)
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- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2017 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)
- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2017 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2017 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2017 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)

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