# Mapping the Bones

**Author:** Jane Yolen
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**First published:** 2018
**Page count:** 434
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9780698175112`
**ISBN-10:** `0698175115`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/mapping-the-bones
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

From the best-selling and award-winning author of The Devil's Arithmetic, Jane Yolen, comes her first Holocaust novel in nearly thirty years. Influenced by Dr. Mengele's sadistic experimentations, this story follows twins as they travel from the Lodz ghetto, to the partisans in the forest, to a horrific concentration camp where they lose everything but each other. It's 1942 in Poland, and the world is coming to pieces. At least that's how it seems to Chaim and Gittel, twins whose lives feel like a fairy tale torn apart, with evil witches, forbidden forests, and dangerous ovens looming on the horizon. But in all darkness there is light, and the twins find it through Chaim's poetry and the love they have for each other. Like the bright flame of a Yahrzeit candle, his words become a beacon of

## Where this book is assigned

### Golden Kite Award

- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Golden Kite Award (SCBWI) winners, via Wikipedia — 2019 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Kite_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Golden Kite Award (SCBWI) winners, via Wikipedia — 2019 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Kite_Award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: Golden Kite Award (SCBWI) winners, via Wikipedia — 2019 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Kite_Award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: Golden Kite Award (SCBWI) winners, via Wikipedia — 2019 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Kite_Award)

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