Number The Stars by Lois Lowry

Number The Stars by Lois Lowry is a book that I first read in middle school. The novel Number The Stars can fit into more than one genre, since this story is set in 1943, in one of the most dangerous times for one to be a Jewish person under the Nazis regime.

If one looks up this book on goodreads, which I personally, recommend this website for those who are avid readers because it suggest books that one may not know about. As well, it helps one find books by their favorite authors too.

Anyway, back to the genre, Number The Stars can fall under ten different genres according to  goodreads.  Though I’m going to pick a couple and list them in the macro to the micro genres: Juvenile, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, and History, World War II, World War II, Holocaust.

Number The Stars is set in Copenhagen Denmark in the 1940s at the heart of the Nazis regime. The main character Annemarie Johansen, a ten-year-old girl and her best friend Ellen Rosen lives in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark under the Nazis occupation. In the course of the story, the Johansen family with other families goes on a dangerous mission to help Jewish families including Ellen’s family escape to Sweden, which was one of the very few countries that were free of the Nazis control.

I personally feel that through the treacherous mission of getting Ellen and her family to Sweden, the veil of a child’s innocents is stripped away from Annemarie and she learns the real danger that the Jewish people who live in Denmark are really in. Annemarie learns through this story, that loyalty and sacrificing her own life to get her best friend and family to a safe country is the greatest gift she can offer to her best friend Ellen.

In my opinion, Number The Stars by Lois Lowry is a book I highly recommend for anyone who likes stories that have a strong friendship bond through a real dangerous period of world history. However, this book being fiction there is enough historical facts woven through the story that people who like historical fiction would enjoy this book too. I believe children, who are in middle school, and being first introduced to World War II and the Nazis regime will connect to this story.

The book Number The Stars would be an excellent introduction for children to grasp the real danger that people living in the 1940s under the Nazis control. This book also gives young readers the understanding that there were people, who were against what the Nazis were doing to the Jewish people and did everything in their power to help get the Jewish people to safe countries.

Finding a literary agent

After one’s done writing their full manuscript and editing their work. The next step is to write a query letter and then find some literary agents that you believe your manuscript fits what they are looking for. Here are three literary agents and what types of works they are looking to represent. 


Kathryn Green is the literary agent for Laurie Faria Stolarz, who wrote The Blue is for Nightmare series and many other books too. Ms. Green owns her own literary agency called Kathryn Green Literary Agency, LLC. That is located in New York. She only accepts e-mail query letters with no attachments. She also wants the first ten pages at the bottom of their query letters that is all placed in the body of the e-mail. The genre Ms. Green likes to read is General fiction, Mystery, Romance, Juvenile fiction…


Rosemary B. Stimola is the literary agent for Suzanne Collins, who wrote The Hunger Games series, with many other books too. Ms. Stimola owns her own literary agency called Stimola Literary Studio. This literary agency is located in New Jersey. She only accepts e-mail query letters with no attachments. The query letter must be placed in the body of an e-mail. Ms. Stimola also wants the first ten pages located at the bottom of the query letter right after their personal information. She likes to read Young Adult, Children’s Middle Grade and Graphic Novels. In nonfiction, she likes to read cookbooks.


Susan Ramer is the literary agent for Kathryn Stockett, who wrote the novel The Help, with many other books too. Ms. Ramer is part of Don Congdon Associates, INC. This agency is located in New York. Ms. Ramer only accepts e-mail queries with the first chapter after their personal information. The query letter must be placed in the body of the e-mail with no attachments. The genres she likes to read is literary fiction, up market commercial fiction (contemporary and historical), and narrative non-fiction.     


The literary agent that I would especially like to represent me would be Kathryn Green. This is because she seems to like to represent people who write in the supernatural genre, which is the genre that I like writing  in.