Year after year, Eli watches the solemn lighting of seven candles at his family's celebration of Rosh Hashanah. But these happy occasions are always tinged with sadness, and Eli doesn't understand why.

Then one year he travels to Eastern Europe and finally hears the stories that for generations have been too painful to share. As Eli learns how the candles represent his family's connection to the Holocaust, he also learns a lesson about the importance of remembering.

Ruth Vander Zee
Marian Sneider • authors

Bill Farnsworth • illustrator

Eerdmans Books,
Grand Rapids/Cambridge
ISBN 978-0-8028-5295-3

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Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2008
Florida Book Awards, 2007 Childrens's Literature - Bronze medal
IRA/CBC Children's Choices for 2008.

Ruth with Bill Farnsworth.