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  Interior design by Wendy Holdman

  Typeset in Plantin

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  Printed on acid-free 55# Glatfelter Offset B 18 Cream paper

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  The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

  © 1996, Text by Laura E. Williams

  © 1996, Illustrations by A. Nancy Goldstein

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  eISBN : 978-1-571-31826-8

  Milkweed Editions, a nonprofit publisher, gratefully acknowledges support from Anonymous; Emilie and Henry Buchwald; Bush Foundation; Patrick and Aimee Butler Family Foundation; Cargill Value Investment; Timothy and Tara Clark Family Charitable Fund; Dougherty Family Foundation; Ecolab Foundation; General Mills Foundation; Kathleen Jones; D.K. Light; McKnight Foundation; a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and private funders; Sheila C. Morgan; Laura Jane Musser Fund; an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art; Navarre Corporation Debbie Reynolds; Cynthia and Stephen Snyder; St. Paul Travelers Foundation; Ellen and Sheldon Sturgis; Surdna Foundation; Target Foundation; Gertrude Sexton Thompson Charitable Trust (George R.A. Johnson, Trustee); James R. Thorpe Foundation; Toro Foundation; Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation; and Xcel Energy Foundation.

  The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier edition as follows:

  Williams, Laura E.

  p. cm.

  1. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Germany—Juvenile fiction. [1. Holocaust, Jewish (1939—1945)—Germany—Fiction. 2. Jews—Germany—Fiction. 3. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust—Fiction. 4. Germany—History—1933-1945—Fiction.] I. Title

  PZ7.W666584Be 1996

  [Fic]—dc20

  95-52374

  This book is printed on acid-free paper.