The Stone Lamp: Eight Stories of Hanukkah Through History cover

The Stone Lamp: Eight Stories of Hanukkah Through History

Author: Hesse, Karen

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 6.6
Points 1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 3768
Points per Word 0.000265
Page Count 40
Points per Page 0.025

Description

This book relates eight incidents from throughout the history of Judaism, each followed by a free-verse poem, told in the voice of a child from that time, who is celebrating one night of Hanukkah and the resilience of the Jewish people.