Claiming My Place
By Planaria Price with Helen Reichmann West
By Planaria Price with Helen Reichmann West
Publication Date: March 13, 2018
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A Junior Library Guild selection, Claiming My Place is the true story of a young Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by escaping to Nazi Germany and hiding in plain sight.
Meet Gucia Gomolinska: smart, determined, independent, and steadfast in the face of injustice. A Jew growing up in predominantly Catholic Poland during the 1920s and ’30s, Gucia studies hard, makes friends, falls in love, and dreams of a bright future.
My Take
I remember reading Eli Wisel's Night the first time and being blown away...emotionally, spiritually, even physically...it's not just the story that affects the reader, it's also (and possibly more so) the way the story is told. The words, the emotion, the personal invitation to see, hear, smell, and feel the story...I'll be thinking about Claiming My Place for a long time.
Claiming My Place is a must read for young adults and adults alike.
About the Author
After graduating from Berkeley and earning a Master's Degree in English Literature from UCLA, Planaria Price began her career teaching English to adult immigrants in Los Angeles. She has written several textbooks for University of Michigan Press and has lectured at over 75 conferences. In addition to her passion for teaching and writing, Planaria has worked with her husband to save and restore over 30 Victorian and Craftsman homes in her historic Los Angeles neighborhood. Claiming My Place is her first book for young adults.
For more information, please visit Planaria's website at www.
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