The Girl’s Thoughts on The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman

The Girl (age 11) and I spotted The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman awhile back while browsing the stacks at our local library.  We each grabbed a copy and planned to read it together.  I finished the book first (check out my review), while The Girl read it more slowly as part of her daily in-class reading.  A recent class assignment was to write about a book she’d finished, and because she would be presenting it to the class, she had to grab the other students’ attention without giving too much away.  She was excited about this assignment because she’d had some practice, having reviewed books here for the past couple of years.

Here are her thoughts:

In The Entertainer and the Dybbuk, a young Jewish boy who died at the hands of a bloodthirsty Nazi seeks his revenge. This is a fiction novel by Sid Fleischman. The main characters are the Great Freddie, who is a horrible ventriloquist, and the dybbuk, a Jewish spirit who was killed along with his sister in WWII.  The setting is pretty much all over the place because the Great Freddie is a traveling ventriloquist, but it mostly takes place on a train and in theaters in Europe and the United States.  The most interesting part to me was the court scene at the end of the book, when the dybbuk comes face to face with the Nazi officer who murdered him.  I suggest this book for Jr. High readers who are interested in ghosts and WWII history.

I was thrilled when she came home from school on Monday and told me she received an A+ on her book presentation!  Yea!

Disclosure: The Girl borrowed The Entertainer and the Dybbuk from our local library. I am an IndieBound affiliate and an Amazon associate.

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