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📖 Read on Archive.org (external link, opens in new tab)- Author
- Jane Yolen
- Publisher
- Turtleback
- Pages
- 241
- Series
- The Fairy tale series
- Readers
- 4.0★ (2)
Briar Rose
1992 · Book · Jane Yolen
AdaptationsFantasy fictionFairy talesSleeping Beauty (Tale)Holocaust, Jewish (1933-1945)Fiction
“GEMMA, TELL YOUR STORY AGAIN'" SHANA BEGGED, PUT-ting her arms around her grandmother and breathing in that special smell of talcum and lemon that seemed to belong only to her.”
Grandmother Gemma always told the story of Briar Rose, and after she dies, her grandaughter discoveres that Gemma was a real-life Sleeping Beauty - a Holocaust survivor. by Jane Yolen