num_pages: 213
description: The classic true story of one child's experiences during the holocaust.Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto. Upon the Head of the Goat is the winner of the 1982 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a 1982 Newbery Honor Book.“This is a book that should be read by all those interested in the Holocaust and what it did to young and old.” —Isaac Bashevis Singer
language: English
title: Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944
titlecomplete: Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944
genres: Middle Grade, History, Biography, Memoir, World War II, Holocaust, Hungary, Biography Memoir, War, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1524
places: Hungary
series: Piri
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux