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Number the Stars — Lois Lowry
Garden Heights · Independent Novel Study

Number the Stars

a novel by Lois Lowry
Copenhagen, 1943. Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen’s footrace ends at two soldiers’ rifles — and her ordinary childhood ends with it. When the occupiers move against Denmark’s Jews, her family hides her best friend Ellen behind a dead sister’s name, joins a funeral for an aunt who never existed, and sends one small girl running through dark woods with a lunch basket on which everything depends. Lois Lowry’s Newbery Medal winner (1990) turns the real October 1943 rescue of Denmark’s Jews into the finest introduction to courage a classroom can read. These 8 Part workbooks cover the full novel (17 chapters + Afterword), with vocabulary, comprehension, literary analysis, Think Deeper reasoning, SAT® & TOEFL®-style practice, and writing, all built on real-world CLIL background.
Level 4Newbery Medal 1990Interactive & auto-gradedCLIL-based
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Level 4 · Strong ReadersUS Grade 5Lexile 670LAR (ATOS) 4.5 · Newbery Medal (1990)
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Subject Personalities
The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.
PRIMARY LENS
🇧🇰 WWII & the Danish Rescue
Occupation, Resistance, and the real October 1943 escape of 7,000+ Danish Jews to Sweden — the history under every chapter.
SUPPORTING
⛵ Maritime Denmark & the Øresund
Fishing villages, the narrow strait to Sweden, boats whose daily routine became the rescue’s cover.
SUPPORTING
🕮 Courage & Knowing
Need-to-know, coded talk, and bravery sized to what each person must carry — the book’s theory of courage.
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Progress
PT1
Part 1 · Chapters 1–2
The Footrace & the Soldiers • The King on Horseback • Lise’s Shadow
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PT2
Part 2 · Chapters 3–4
The Closed Shop • Peter’s Warning • Ellen Becomes ‘Lise’
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PT3
Part 3 · Chapters 5–6
The Night Search • The Star in the Fist • The Train North
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PT4
Part 4 · Chapters 7–8
The House by the Sea • Sweden in Sight • The Funeral That Isn’t
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PT5
Part 5 · Chapters 9–10
Brave Without Knowing • The Typhus Lie • The Psalm of the Stars
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PT6
Part 6 · Chapters 11–12
The Casket Opened • The Dark Path • The Dropped Packet
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PT7
Part 7 · Chapters 13–15
The Run Through the Dark • Soldiers & Dogs • The Handkerchief
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PT8
Part 8 · Ch 16–17 & Afterword
The Truths Told at Last • Liberation • The Worn Star · Final
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