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Ina R. Friedman
  • Brookline, MA
  • United States
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Are you a current SCBWI member?
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Role(s)
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Website
http://www.InaRFriedman.net
Published Works
How My Parents Learned to Eat, picturebook illustrated by Allen Say (picturebook; ISBN 978-0395442357)

Other Victims: First-Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis (YA nonfiction; ISBN 978-0395745151)

Escape Or Die: True Stories of Young People Who Survived the Holocaust (YA nonfiction; ISBN 978-0938756347)

Flying Against the Wind: The Story of a Young Woman Who Defied the Nazis (YA nonfiction; ISBN 978-1886721005)

Black Cop: A Biography of Tilmon B. O'Bryant, Assistant Chief of Police, Washington, D.C. (YA nonfiction; 978-1886721012)

Award-winning novelist, biographer, and storyteller

Ina R. Friedman writes books for young people exploring the themes of cultural understanding, and about the impact of the Nazi regime on the lives of young people.
• "How my Parents Learned to Eat"
received a Christopher Award for promoting cultural understanding.
• "Black Cop"
tells the story of a young man who rose from the ghetto to become deputy chief of the Washington D.C. police force.
• "Escape or Die: True stories of Young People Who Survived the Holocaust"
describes the courageous and desperate steps young Jews took to escape from the Nazis.
• "The Other Victims: First Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis"
an ALAYAD "Best Books" and an ABA "Pick of the List" examines the Nazis' attempt to create a master race by wiping out so-called "defective traits" and the human suffering caused by the Nazis' policies.
• "Flying Against the Wind: The Story of a Young Woman Who Defies the Nazis",
relates the story of a young German Christian woman who refuses to accept the hatred and violence of the Nazis. Though she pays a terrible price for her resistance, she remains undefeated in spirit.

Ms. Friedman holds a B.A. from Penn State University and an M.A. from Lesley College in Storytelling. She lives in Brookline MA with her husband and a staggering number of books.

Copyright © 2009 Ina R. Friedman: www.inarfriedman.net. All rights reserved.
 
 

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