Pulling Apart

Mock Newbery:

10 of us
addicted readers
created a book list:

_Yellow Star_
_Desert Crossing_
_Year of the Dog_
_Weedflower_
_Sand Dollar Summer_
_Ask Me No Questions_
_Hattie Big Sky_

Voted and partied.

Our winner was
_Yellow Star_.

The account of
Syvia Perlmutter's childhood
in a ghetto in Lodz, Poland,
from 1939 to 1945.

Out of a ghetto
population of 275,000

Eight children
survived.

1940
Syvia, age five.

"They give me an old sweater
that has holes,
and I pull apart the yarn.
The women use the yarn
along with pieces of old fabric
to make dresses and sweaters.
They must find ways to be warm,
they say,..."

Unravel
Unknit

But to Syvia
it was "pulling apart"...

Warmth and survival
yarn provisioned.

"I feel the wool
thread through my fingers
soft and thick and ready
to help." (She says.)

Please God,
let us pull together,
help us make peace.