SuitabookThe Night of the Burning
Linda Press Wulf
- Reading
- Consider reading together and pausing after the community’s destruction and the sisters’ separate adoptions; these turning points may help a child make sense of Devorah’s changing feelings.
- Themes
- Memory and family: Devorah fears that leaving home and being adopted will mean forgetting or betraying her parents. The resolution supports the idea that she can keep her parents’ memory without being solely responsible for preserving the past.
- Worth knowing
- The story includes an attack on a Jewish community, deaths and survival amid gas poisoning, famine and infectious disease. It also depicts sisters being separated through adoption.