WINNER OF 2008 SYDNEY TAYLOR AWARD FOR OLDER READERS

As a remembrance of the 1.5 million children killed in the Holocaust, Fleischman pairs Freddie, an ex GI ventriloquist with a Jewish spirit-- a dybbuk. The dybbuk is revealed to be the the ghost of a twelve year old boy, Avrom Amos, a victim of the Nazis. In a scheme to seek revenge, the dybbuk commandeers Freddie's stage act and entraps the entertainer in the postwar ashes of Germany, educating others about atrocities of the Holocaust. A powerful book.