Identify this book?

Question

I read this book like...way back in seventh grade i think, and i cant remember the name of it. It's about this girl, i think she is Russian, who ends up in a concentration camp in Siberia. eventually she is put into this house with a lot of other people who share one room, and some people from a local village came once and gave them food (watermelon i think) so they would survive. she eventually ends up meeting someone, there was something about a dance in the village or town, and she tried to buy a red dress but some other girl beat her to it at some point...
I have really vague memories about this book, but i remember loving it. if any of you know what this book is, please let me know! thanks!

i dont think the girl was jewish. i remember it specifically being in Siberia... it was the same time as WWII, yes, but it is NOT Anne Frank, or Number the Stars, or Night.... because she wasnt jewish if i remember correctly. thanks for trying though.

Answer 1

Could it be The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig?
http://www.amazon.com/Endless-Steppe-Growing-Up-Siberia/dp/customer-reviews/006440577X
I couldn't see anything about a red dress in the reviews - & I'm not sure if she is in a concentration camp or not ... but, well you'll know if it is right or not when you read the reviews.


One of these might be it - hopefully something in one of the reviews will strike a chord:
http://www.cool-reads.co.uk/review.asp?ID=774
http://www.cool-reads.co.uk/review.asp?ID=721

http://www.cool-reads.co.uk/review.asp?ID=2561

There's also loads of Holocaust type books for children listed (with reviews) on this site:
http://www.childrenslit.com/th_holocaust.html

and here
http://streetcat.bankstreet.edu/pdf/MemoirsOlder.pdf

I hadn't realised that there were so many books like the one that you want to re-read around!

Answer 2

I don't know what it is, but it sounds like a girl being put in a gulag under Stalin- you might check out some stuff by Solzhenitsyn (who wrote about that sort of thing, though this doesn't sound like his style). If you checked around on Amazon or something you might find it- but I wouldn't suggest using "concentration camp" because all you'll get is books on the Holocaust.

Answer 3

yeah, the beginning of it sounds like anne frank, but the part of the red dress sounds like the book "alice, i think" thats a newer book though, but you never mentioned how old u were so you may have got confused and combined the two books, good luck!

Answer 4

Could it be Number the Stars, I can't remember the author but they seem the same

Answer 5

Possibly "The Diary of Ann Frank"? That's all that came into my mind! :o)

Answer 6

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