"How brave are you, little Annemarie?"

In 1990, the two-time Newbery medalist Lois Lowry first introduced readers to a ten-year old girl living in Nazi-occupied Denmark. For Annemarie Johansen, life is a complicated mix of ordinary home and school time, food shortages, and the constant presence of German soldiers.

Bravery seems a vague virtue to Annemarie—one possessed by a dragon-slaying knights in the bedtime stories she tells her younger sister, Kirsti. Too soon, she herself is called upon for courage when Hitler's troops begin their 1943 campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, and the Johansen family must risk their own lives to conceal Annemarie's best friend, Ellen, from the Nazis.

Through the eyes of a child, readers the world over have witnessed the astonishing act of collective heroism by the Danish Resistance, which smuggled almost the entire Jewish population, nearly seven thousand people, across the sea to Sweden.

This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition, which includes an introduction by the author, reminds us that bravery, pride, and human dignity can survive the darkest of times.

From the dust jacket of the 25th anniversary edition