Thursday, September 15, 2011

The Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow

"As Herr Boch finished the last lecture of the school year, I sketched one final caricature of him into the margins of my notebook."

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In 1936 Berlin, fourteen-year-old Karl Stern, considered Jewish despite a non-religious upbringing, learns to box from the legendary Max Schmeling while struggling with the realities of the Holocaust.

HarperTeen; 404 pages

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