The Broadneck Library will be closed Monday, April 1 - Tuesday, April 16 for branch improvements. Please plan to pickup your holds at another location

The Riviera Beach Library is currently closed. For more information on the new location, please visit the Riviera Beach Library

The Book of Aron: A novel

Book Cover
Average Rating
5 star
 
(0)
4 star
 
(0)
3 star
 
(1)
2 star
 
(0)
1 star
 
(0)
Author:
Publisher:
Varies, see individual formats and editions
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description
The acclaimed National Book Award finalist—“one of the United States’ finest writers,” according to Joshua Ferris, “full of wit, humanity, and fearless curiosity”—now gives us a novel that will join the short list of classics about children caught up in the Holocaust.
Aron, the narrator, is an engaging if peculiar and unhappy young boy whose family is driven by the German onslaught from the Polish countryside into Warsaw and slowly battered by deprivation, disease, and persecution. He and a handful of boys and girls risk their lives by scuttling around the ghetto to smuggle and trade contraband through the quarantine walls in hopes of keeping their fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters alive, hunted all the while by blackmailers and by Jewish, Polish, and German police, not to mention the Gestapo.
When his family is finally stripped away from him, Aron is rescued by Janusz Korczak, a doctor renowned throughout prewar Europe as an advocate of children’s rights who, once the Nazis swept in, was put in charge of the Warsaw orphanage. Treblinka awaits them all, but does Aron manage to escape—as his mentor suspected he could—to spread word about the atrocities? 
Jim Shepard has masterfully made this child’s-eye view of the darkest history mesmerizing, sometimes comic despite all odds, truly heartbreaking, and even inspiring. Anyone who hears Aron’s voice will remember it forever.
Also in This Series
More Like This
More Details
ISBN:
9781101912966
9781101874325
Staff View

Grouping Information

Grouped Work IDf1656461-6f8f-825e-529e-a01652fb315d
Grouping Titlebook of aron
Grouping Authorjim shepard
Grouping Categorybook
Grouping LanguageEnglish (eng)
Last Grouping Update2024-03-28 04:05:51AM
Last Indexed2024-03-28 04:32:14AM

Solr Fields

accelerated_reader_point_value
0
accelerated_reader_reading_level
0
author
Shepard, Jim
author_display
Shepard, Jim
available_at_aacpl
Online OverDrive Collection
detailed_location_aacpl
Online OverDrive Collection
display_description
The acclaimed National Book Award finalist—“one of the United States’ finest writers,” according to Joshua Ferris, “full of wit, humanity, and fearless curiosity”—now gives us a novel that will join the short list of classics about children caught up in the Holocaust.
Aron, the narrator, is an engaging if peculiar and unhappy young boy whose family is driven by the German onslaught from the Polish countryside into Warsaw and slowly battered by deprivation, disease, and persecution. He and a handful of boys and girls risk their lives by scuttling around the ghetto to smuggle and trade contraband through the quarantine walls in hopes of keeping their fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters alive, hunted all the while by blackmailers and by Jewish, Polish, and German police, not to mention the Gestapo.
When his family is finally stripped away from him, Aron is rescued by Janusz Korczak, a doctor renowned throughout prewar Europe as an advocate of children’s rights who, once the Nazis swept in, was put in charge of the Warsaw orphanage. Treblinka awaits them all, but does Aron manage to escape—as his mentor suspected he could—to spread word about the atrocities? 
Jim Shepard has masterfully made this child’s-eye view of the darkest history mesmerizing, sometimes comic despite all odds, truly heartbreaking, and even inspiring. Anyone who hears Aron’s voice will remember it forever.
format_aacpl
eAudiobook
eBook
format_category_aacpl
Audio Books
eBook
id
f1656461-6f8f-825e-529e-a01652fb315d
isbn
9781101874325
9781101912966
last_indexed
2024-03-28T08:32:14.488Z
lexile_score
-1
literary_form
Fiction
literary_form_full
Fiction
local_callnumber_aacpl
Online OverDrive
owning_library_aacpl
Anne Arundel County Public Library Online
owning_location_aacpl
Online OverDrive Collection
primary_isbn
9781101912966
publishDate
2015
publisher
Books on Tape
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
recordtype
grouped_work
title_display
The Book of Aron A novel
title_full
The Book of Aron A novel
title_short
The Book of Aron
title_sub
A novel
topic_facet
Fiction
Literature

Solr Details Tables

item_details

Bib IdItem IdShelf LocCall NumFormatFormat CategoryNum CopiesIs Order ItemIs eContenteContent SourceeContent URLDetailed StatusLast CheckinLocation
overdrive:66a5783f-81b9-46c9-8b06-fea6adbbfa401Online OverDrive CollectionOnline OverDriveeAudiobookAudio Books0falsetrueOverDriveAvailable Online
overdrive:66a5783f-81b9-46c9-8b06-fea6adbbfa40-1Online OverDrive CollectionOnline OverDriveeAudiobookAudio Books2falsetrueOverDriveAvailable Online
overdrive:b5662171-033f-4c6c-bd78-0818e4746fd7-1Online OverDrive CollectionOnline OverDriveeBookeBook4falsetrueOverDriveAvailable Online
overdrive:b5662171-033f-4c6c-bd78-0818e4746fd71Online OverDrive CollectionOnline OverDriveeBookeBook1falsetrueOverDriveAvailable Online

record_details

Bib IdFormatFormat CategoryEditionLanguagePublisherPublication DatePhysical DescriptionAbridged
overdrive:66a5783f-81b9-46c9-8b06-fea6adbbfa40eAudiobookAudio BooksEnglishBooks on Tape2015
overdrive:b5662171-033f-4c6c-bd78-0818e4746fd7eBookeBookEnglishKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group2015

scoping_details_aacpl

Bib IdItem IdGrouped StatusStatusLocally OwnedAvailableHoldableBookableIn Library Use OnlyLibrary OwnedHoldable PTypesBookable PTypesLocal Url
overdrive:66a5783f-81b9-46c9-8b06-fea6adbbfa401Available OnlineAvailable Onlinefalsetruetruefalsefalsetrue
overdrive:66a5783f-81b9-46c9-8b06-fea6adbbfa40-1Available OnlineAvailable Onlinefalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse
overdrive:b5662171-033f-4c6c-bd78-0818e4746fd7-1Available OnlineAvailable Onlinefalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse
overdrive:b5662171-033f-4c6c-bd78-0818e4746fd71Available OnlineAvailable Onlinefalsetruetruefalsefalsetrue