Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Maus: A Survivor's Tale
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Just the Series: Maus: A Survivor's Tale Vol. 1   

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Annotation: A powerful memoir, presented in a cartoon format, about a Jewish family during and after the Holocaust. Graphic novel.
 
Reviews: 3
Catalog Number: #192939
Format: Perma-Bound Edition
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Special Formats: Graphic Novel Graphic Novel
Common Core/STEAM: Common Core Common Core
Copyright Date: 1986
Edition Date: 1986 Release Date: 08/12/86
Pages: 159 pages
ISBN: Publisher: 0-394-74723-2 Perma-Bound: 0-8000-5482-2
ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-0-394-74723-1 Perma-Bound: 978-0-8000-5482-3
Dewey: 940.53
Dimensions: 24 cm.
Language: English
Reviews:
School Library Journal

YA Told with chilling realism in an unusual comic-book format, this is more than a tale of surviving the Holocaust. Spiegelman relates the effect of those events on the survivors' later years and upon the lives of the following generation. Each scene opens at the elder Spiegelman's home in Rego Park, N.Y. Art, who was born after the war, is visiting his father, Vladek, to record his experiences in Nazi-occupied Poland. The Nazis, portrayed as cats, gradually introduce increasingly repressive measures, until the Jews, drawn as mice, are systematically hunted and herded toward the Final Solution. Vladek saves himself and his wife by a combination of luck and wits, all the time enduring the torment of hunted outcast. The other theme of this book is Art's troubled adjustment to life as he, too, bears the burden of his parents' experiences. This is a complex book. It relates events which young adults, as the future architects of society, must confront, and their interest is sure to be caught by the skillful graphics and suspenseful unfolding of the story. Rita G. Keeler, St. John's School , Houston

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Word Count: 20,737
Reading Level: 3.2
Interest Level: 9+
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 3.2 / points: 3.0 / quiz: 70909 / grade: Upper Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:6.8 / points:7.0 / quiz:Q07483
Lexile: NP

The bestselling first installment of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker) • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • One of Variety’s “Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Read”

A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.


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