Elisa Boxer

Aug 31, 2024 | slj.com | Elisa Boxer |Tamara Saarinen |Kate Allen |Nessa Diab

Gr 2-5–“I was supposed to be destroyed.” This is the opening line and the refrain of this provocative story of a White House beam removed during the 1952 rebuild. The beam recounts history it witnessed: 400 rabbis coming to the White House in 1943 to ask President Roosevelt to allow European Jews entry (they were turned away), a piano leg coming through the ceiling in 1948, and the partial demolition and rebuild of the White House. The beam was “Salvaged. Sent to a storage warehouse.

Aug 2, 2024 | slj.com | Elisa Boxer |Jenna LaBollita |Karen Jensen

. Mar. 2024. 238p. Tr $28. ISBN 9781538175514. COPY ISBN Gr 5 Up–In this compilation of concise and intriguing biographies of amazing women, readers are immersed in different fields of innovation and get a firsthand view of how much of a difference grit and determination can make. While there are some mentions of heavy topics, it is discussed with an inspired levity that leaves readers feeling empathetic, uplifted, and motivated.

Jun 7, 2024 | slj.com | Elisa Boxer |Chance Lee Joyner |Elle Gonzalez

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Mar 28, 2024 | sonderbooks.com | Elisa Boxer

The Tree of LifeHow a Holocaust Sapling Inspired the World Review posted March 28, 2024. Rocky Pond Books, 2024. 36 pages. Review written March 20, 2024, from a library book. Starred Review Here's a nonfiction picture book about the Holocaust that manages to focus on the inspiring rather than the terrible. The story is told simply, with more detail in the author's note in the back. From the start, the focus of the pictures is on the tree.

Jan 16, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Elisa Boxer |Lesa Cline-Ransome |James E. Ransome |Lisbeth Kaiser

A tree survives the Holocaust, though most of the children who cared for it don’t. It’s winter in Terezin, the Czechoslovakian propaganda camp with which the Nazis tricked the credulous Red Cross into believing their treatment of Jews was humane. Here, children are allowed to attend school, and one teacher, Irma Lauscher, has the children plant a smuggled-in maple sapling. Miraculously, the children keep the tree alive in the camp, even as they themselves weaken or die.