description: 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 Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.
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: Sagebrush Education Resources