G83 Book Review of Keeping My Hope by Christopher Huh
Name of Book: Keeping My Hope Author: Christopher Huh ISBN: 9781479348831 Publisher: Self published Christopher Huh? Type of book: graphic novel, middle grades, 1930s-1940s, Holocaust, Poland, family, friendship, Nazi, Germany Year it was published: 2013 Summary: Keeping My Hope is a historical fiction graphic novel that depicts WWII and the Holocaust panoramically and cinematographically through the eyes of a young teenager, Ari. Written by 14-year old Christopher Huh. Ari is a teenager whose entire life is turned upside down by the horrors of the Holocaust. He and his family are torn apart and moved to Auschwitz, where the reader gains an inside look at what prisoners in the concentration camps suffered. However, even with this atrocities, the power of friendship shines through and gives Ari hope to keep surviving through the darkest blizzards of terror. Informative yet touching, Keeping My Hope spreads the message of how powerfully racism and prejudice can affect t...