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Hana's Suitcase

by Karen Levine

In 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan, marked "Hana Brady, May 16, 1931." The center's curator, searches for clues to young Hana and her family, whose happy life in a small Czech town was turned upside down by the invasion of the Nazis.

Ages: 11, 12, 10, 13
Interest Level: Grades 3 - 5
Grade Level Equivalent: 5.2
Lexile Measure: 730L
DRA: 60
Guided Reading: Y
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Number of Pages: 111
Genre: Biography, Biography and Autobiography