Welcome everyone to American Girls at the podcast or reliving the American Girl series book by book except here on

Patreon where we're basically reading and watching whatever we want that we think lives within the world of this show. I'm Mary. I'm still

Allison even on Patreon. Even on Patreon. Wow what a dedication what a

dedication of that name. Today Allison we come together to talk about Lois Lowry's Number the Stars.

They're innumerable. That's part of what you learn.

This book sends me to a place every single time. I've read this book like probably three times in my life and

wow it gets me every time Lois. What would you say is your relationship to Lois Lowry as a reader?

As a reader, I read this book when I was probably like 10 years old or something.

This is the first book I ever read that was set during the

Holocaust and I remember after reading this book surprisingly to me I did not read anything else about the Holocaust by choice for sometime a couple of years

Then I read the diary of Ann Frank. That really set me off. I don't know where you're at with the diary of

Frank, but you know, the diary van Frank for me was like one of those foundational

reads where I read it when I was about 12 years old and to me it's a history about what it feels like to be a teenager and I was reading it sort of like on the cusp of becoming a teenager myself which is in many ways like when you care most about reading things that are four teenagers like I remember actively reading 17 magazine when I was 12 not when I was actually 17 and that really sent me in a spiral where there was a period of time where I was reading like every Holocaust memoir, novel, I could get my hands on.

What about you? Did you have a similar stage?

So I have a different, so I love Lois Lowry's books.

The giver is not my favorite, but it is a book that I really enjoyed. I would say for a lot of my childhood bridge to terribithia was my favorite book.

Interesting.

I adore bridge to terribithia. I saw a production of that show. This is where I'm very grateful that there are periods of my life or our lives for our generation that are not excessively documented.

I bet if I saw a picture of how that story was staged,

it was staged for about $25, but it was a special show that I got to go to with my Girl Scout troop. I love the story of Bridge to Terribithia, and I actually think there's a lot of connection to this book, which I can talk about later. I really really liked her writing. That book

resonated with me so much because I was a kid who liked to play in the woods and there's an element in this book as well but I just like really dug into that.

This book was something that I really enjoyed but I had a frustrating experience reading this book.

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