# Number the Stars

**Author:** Lois Lowry
**Lexile:** 670L
**Grade range:** Grades 4–7
**Age range:** 9–12
**First published:** 1989
**Page count:** 137
**Genre:** Historical Fiction (Middle Grade)
**ISBN-13:** `9780547577098`
**ISBN-10:** `0547577095`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/number-the-stars
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen helps her family smuggle her Jewish friend out of Nazi-occupied Denmark. Lowry's Newbery Medal novel is a near-universal 4th-6th grade Holocaust-introduction text and appears on Common Core exemplar lists for grades 4-5.

## Themes

- courage
- friendship
- Holocaust
- resistance
- family

## Content notes

- war themes
- peril
- Holocaust references

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 9+

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **required** · 5th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 4-5 exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **required** · 5th grade · California — [source: CA CCSS ELA grade 5 Newbery-aligned required text](https://www.cde.ca.gov/)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Florida — [source: Miami-Dade Summer Reading — grade 5](https://api.dadeschools.net/WMSFiles/85/PDF/summer-reading.pdf)

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