Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story

The twentieth-anniversary edition of Marion Blumenthal Lazan€s acclaimed Holocaust memoir features new material by the author, a reading group guide, a map, and additional photographs. €œThe writing is direct, devastating, with no rhetoric or exploitation. The truth is in what€s said and in what is left out.€€"ALA Booklist (starred review)

Marion Blumenthal Lazan€s unforgettable and acclaimed memoir recalls the devastating years that shaped her childhood. Following Hitler€s rise to power, the Blumenthal family€"father, mother, Marion, and her brother, Albert€"were trapped in Nazi Germany. They managed eventually to get to Holland, but soon thereafter it was occupied by the Nazis. For the next six and a half years the Blumenthals were forced to live in refugee, transit, and prison camps, including Westerbork in Holland and Bergen-Belsen in Germany, before finally making it to the United States. Their story is one of horror and hardship, but it is also a story of courage, hope, and the will to survive.

Four Perfect Pebbles features forty archival photographs, including several new to this edition, an epilogue, a bibliography, a map, a reading group guide, an index, and a new afterword by the author. First published in 1996, the book was an ALA Notable Book, an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, and IRA Young Adults€ Choice, and a Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, and the recipient of many other honors. €œA harrowing and often moving account.€€"School Library Journal