# The Blood Years

**Author:** Elana K. Arnold
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**First published:** 2023
**Page count:** 396
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9780062990877`
**ISBN-10:** `006299087X`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-blood-years
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award Named a best book of the year by the Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, SLJ, ALA Booklist, the Horn Book, and more Recipient of five starred reviews From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke Teitler and her older sister, Astra, live in a house, in a city, in a world divided. Their father ran out on them when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family. He’s done his best to provide for them and shield them from antisemitism, but now, seven years later, being a Jew has become increasingly dangerous, even in their beloved home of Czernowitz, long cons

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### Golden Kite Award

- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Golden Kite Award (SCBWI) winners, via Wikipedia — 2024 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Kite_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Golden Kite Award (SCBWI) winners, via Wikipedia — 2024 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Kite_Award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: Golden Kite Award (SCBWI) winners, via Wikipedia — 2024 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Kite_Award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: Golden Kite Award (SCBWI) winners, via Wikipedia — 2024 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Kite_Award)

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