Is It Night Or Day?
Fern Schumer Chapman
World War II
Is It Night Or Day is a very interesting book. It's about a 12 year old girl moving from Germany to the United States. Her name was Edith. After Edith was sent to America, she went and lived with her uncle and his family in Chicago, Illinois. Edith's grandmother informed everybody that she was not going to go to America. She quoted, "I was born a German, and I am going to die a German." Edith's father wasn't going to leave without his mother so they stayed behind. Edith's father informed Edith to try to raise money and see if she could get job interviews for them. Edith couldn't get anybody in Chicago to offer her parents or her grandmother a job or get anybody to donate money to help send them to America. Her mother promised Edith that she would write to her to tell her how everything is going back in Germany. Unfortunately, Edith, nor her sister had heard from their relatives until they had gotten a note. The note was stating about all the wars in Germany and also all the damage and deaths. It was until the end, that Edith read that her relatives were sent to concentration camps and died there. Find out what happens to Edith and in the rest of the story!