Upon the head of the goat
Subtitle: a childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944
By: Aranka Siegal.
Edition: Sunburst ed.
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780374480790
Subjects: Siegal, Aranka -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.; Jews -- Ukraine -- Beregovo -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile literature.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Ukraine -- Beregovo -- Personal narratives -- Juvenile literature.; Beregovo (Ukraine) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Beregovo (Ukraine) -- Ethnic relations -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography
Other titles: Newbery Honor book; School Library Journal Best Book; Cecilia Bard Multicultural Library for Peace
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 the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.
Notes: "A Sunburst book."

Originally published: c1981.

Cecilia Bard Multicultural Library for Peace.

Newbery Honor book

School Library Journal Best Book