Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin
by Susan Goldman Rubin
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis lived in Prague, Czechoslovakia, during Hitler’s rise... read more
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Picture Book
Year Published 2000
Word Count 5,719
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 890L
- ATOS Reading Level: 6.2
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 43783, 1.0 AR Points
- Subject Headings
- Women--Biography
- Artists as teachers--Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj)--Juvenile literature
- Concentration camps
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- In art
- Czechoslovakia
- Concentration camps--Czechoslovakia
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)--In art--Juvenile literature
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Czech Republic
- Jewish women artists
- 1938-1945
- Dicker, Friedl, 1898-1944--Juvenile literature
- Jewish women artists--Czech Republic--Hronov--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- Hronov
- Dicker, Friedl
- Women
- Children's art
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Holocaust
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Artists as teachers
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945
- Children's art--Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj)--Juvenile literature
- Artists
- History
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia
- Dicker, Friedl, 1898-1944
- Terezin (Severo'cesky kraj)
- Lists With This Book
- Children Caught in War
- Holocaust and World War II
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 2
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Awards & Distinctions 3

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2001

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2022
Selection, 2001

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2022
Nonfiction Honor, 2001
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