Thelma and Michael have three sons, David, Peter, and Leon. Michael still lives in the same house in Brookline, Massachusetts, that he and Thelma moved to more than forty-five years ago. Recently, Michael established a fund at the MIT music library in memory of his parents.
TODD HASAK-LOWY is the author of four books of fiction, including the middle-grade novel 33 Minutes, also published by Aladdin. Todd holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and was an assistant and later associate professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at the University of Florida from 2002–2010. In 2010 he left his academic position and relocated to Evanston, Illinois, with his wife and two daughters, in order to focus on his creative writing. In addition to writing books, Todd translates Hebrew fiction into English and teaches courses in both Creative Writing and Literature at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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ALADDIN
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First Aladdin hardcover edition August 2015
Text copyright © 2015 by Michael Gruenbaum
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Front jacket photograph courtesy of Michael Gruenbaum
Back jacket photograph copyright © 2015 by Dennis Darling
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gruenbaum, Michael, author.
Somewhere there is still a sun / Michael Gruenbaum and Todd Hasak-Lowy.
—pages cm
Summary: When the Nazis invade Czechoslovakia in 1941, twelve-year-old
Michael and his family are deported from Prague to the Terezin concentration camp, where his mother’s will and ingenuity keep them from being transported to Auschwitz and certain death.
ISBN 978-1-4424-8486-3 (hardcover) 1. Gruenbaum, Michael—Juvenile literature. 2. Jews—Czech Republic—Biography—Juvenile literature. 3. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Czech Republic—Juvenile literature. 4. Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)—Juvenile literature. 5. Jewish children in the Holocaust—Czech Republic—Juvenile literature. I. Hasak-Lowy, Todd, 1969-author. II. Title.
DS135.C97G78 2015
940.53’18092—dc23
[B]
2014038660
ISBN 978-1-4424-8488-7 (eBook)
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