# Night

**Author:** Elie Wiesel
**Lexile:** 590L
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–18
**First published:** 1960
**Page count:** 120
**Genre:** Memoir
**ISBN-13:** `9780374500016`
**ISBN-10:** `0374500010`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/night
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Elie Wiesel's first-person account of his deportation as a teenager from Sighet, Hungary, to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald. The short memoir focuses on his relationship with his father and the erosion of faith under the camps. It is one of the most widely assigned Holocaust texts in US high schools.

## Themes

- Holocaust
- faith and doubt
- father-son relationships
- survival
- witness and memory

## Content notes

- graphic Holocaust violence
- death of family members
- starvation
- execution of a child

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 14+

## Where this book is assigned

### AP English Literature & Composition

- **supplementary** · 11th grade — [source: AP Lit — memoir study representative text](https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-english-literature-and-composition)

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 9-10 informational text exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **required** · 10th grade · Florida — [source: Florida Holocaust education mandate (§1003.42, F.S.)](https://www.fldoe.org/)
- **required** · 10th grade · New York — [source: NY Holocaust education mandate (Education Law §801)](https://www.nysed.gov/)
- **required** · 10th grade · New York — [source: NYC DOE grade 10 Holocaust unit required text](https://www.schools.nyc.gov/learning/subjects/english-language-arts)

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