Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Greenhorn
    Unavailable
    Greenhorn
    Unavailable
    Greenhorn
    Ebook47 pages26 minutes

    Greenhorn

    By Anna Olswanger

    4.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    In Anna Olswanger’s Greenhorn, a young Holocaust survivor arrives at a New York yeshiva in 1946 where he will study and live. His only possession is a small box that he never lets out of his sight. Daniel, the young survivor, rarely talks, but the narrator, a stutterer who bears the taunts of the other boys, comes to consider Daniel his friend. The mystery of what’s in the box propels this short work, but it’s in the complex relationships of the school boys that the human story is revealed. In the end, Aaron, the stutterer, finds his voice and a friend in Daniel, and their bond offers hope for a future life of dreams realized, one in which Daniel is able to let go of his box. Greenhorn is a powerful story that gives human dimension to the Holocaust. It poignantly underscores our flawed humanity and speaks to the healing value of friendship. Families will want to read Greenhorn together.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJunebug Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2012
    ISBN9781603061599
    Unavailable
    Greenhorn

    Related to Greenhorn

    Related ebooks

    Children's Historical For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Scarlet PEBBLE

      Feb 7, 2024

      The Scarlet PEBBLE
      9 min read

    • Article

      Confido BY KURT VONNEGUT

      Nov 1, 2022

      Confido BY KURT VONNEGUT
      13 min read

    • Article

      Housewarming

      Dec 1, 2022

      DENNIS MCFARLAND’S most recent novel is Nostalgia. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and the Scholar, among other places. When Kevin arrived at the top floor and stepped into a long dark hallway, he couldn’t re

      21 min read

    • Article

      Mysterious Ways

      Aug 27, 2019

      I found the box on a shelf in the basement, covered in a thick layer of dust. My heart leaped when I realized what it was. Danny’s puzzle! It had been almost 20 years since I’d seen it last. I remembered when our son Danny showed up, the box tucked u

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Joke

      Sep 1, 2020

      Although best known for his 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury was also a prolific writer of short stories, having published his first while still a teenager. This previously unpublished story likely dates to 1950, the year The Martian Chronicle

      5 min read

    • Article

      Wishing For Christmas

      Nov 1, 2020

      Wishing For Christmas
      5 min read

    • Article

      Lev’s Pawn Shop

      Dec 10, 2022

      In days gone by, it might have been said that Lev had had a vision, that he had been struck from his horse by the voice of God and seen the error of his ways. As it was, people said that he had gone a bit nutty in his old age, though it was unanimous

      11 min read

    • Article

      It Happened To Me…

      Jan 26, 2023

      It Happened To Me…
      7 min read

    • Article

      “God Is A Bathtub !”

      Jul 15, 2021

      IT must be the full moon. It was all going along quite comfortably for, ooh, about nine seconds. I’d asked what the album will be like, like it tells me to in the manual. And Björk had replied, “all sorts of things”, just like pop stars are supposed

      9 min read

    • Article

      The Mothership

      Feb 6, 2020

      The Mothership
      7 min read

    • Article

      Lay Your Burden Down

      Mar 1, 2019

      Lay Your Burden Down
      15 min read

    • Article

      Lights Across the Water

      Oct 1, 2023

      Lights Across the Water
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Lady In WHITE

      Oct 18, 2023

      The Lady In WHITE
      6 min read

    • Article

      True Colours

      Mar 1, 2022

      True Colours
      11 min read

    • Article

      Brontez Purnell, Fiction

      Mar 21, 2018

      Brontez Purnell, Fiction
      3 min read

    • Article

      Stay and Fight

      Jul 9, 2019

      Stay and Fight
      16 min read

    • Article

      Timespiral

      Feb 1, 2020

      Timespiral
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Stonemason’s Wife

      Sep 1, 2020

      JOLINA HAS been hearing voices of men she’s never met. Voices like water, clear and cold, eddying at the back of her mind. They’re not real. She knows this. As in, she’s not crazy. They’re only the voices she’s heard on the phone, voices of men who b

      6 min read

    • Article

      Just a Start

      Sep 1, 2021

      Just a Start
      7 min read

    • Article

      Begin Again

      Jun 14, 2022

      My grandfather came to live with me. There was nowhere else for him to go. What had happened to all his children? Death, decay, exile—I hardly know. My own parents died of pain. But I must not be too gloomy, at the beginning, or you will leave me, an

      6 min read

    • Article

      Moving Out, Shifting In

      Jan 8, 2024

      Moving Out, Shifting In
      4 min read

    • Article

      A rapist was HIDING IN THE WALLS

      Sep 3, 2020

      Paul Verhoeven, 37, Melbourne, Vic Wandering around my parents’ walk-in-wardrobe, I noticed the pile of cardboard boxes stacked in the corner. I was only seven, but knowing they contained items relating to my dad John’s work as a police officer, I

      3 min read

    • Article

      Where Does This Live?

      Dec 6, 2022

      The Roseville Hotel had closed many years ago, and the rooms upstairs had been converted to apartments, but the bar on the ground floor was still called the Roseville Hotel, because everyone was used to the name. One Saturday in January, John James a

      22 min read

    • Article

      Nugrybauti

      Apr 24, 2019

      Nugrybauti
      8 min read

    • Article

      The July War

      Sep 8, 2020

      In summer, our neighborhood quiets in phases. The quieting begins in May. Schools give their older kids, the seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds, a month off to prepare for the baccalaureate exams. Following a ritual as old as our parents, the students

      21 min read

    • Article

      The Recovery

      Nov 25, 2023

      The Recovery
      3 min read

    Reviews for Greenhorn

    4.5/5

    2 ratings3 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      Above all, Greenhorn is a book to help tell the tale of the Holocaust to children. It presents the story in a way that children can relate to it, Jewish or not.Daniel is the new kid in class in a new school where he doesn't speak the language. (The story is actually told by Daniel's roommate.) The other boys pick on Daniel because he's different and because he carries around something they don't understand. Daniel carries around a box; he doesn't open it and he doesn't let it out of his sight. This leads to lots of jeering from the other boys.The climax of the book hits when they boys open Daniel's box. What they find is just gruesome enough to hit home and make the story real. I've done a lot of reading on Nazi Germany, Concentration Camps, and the Final Solution. I had a few guess of what would be in the box: bone fragments, teeth, ashes, scraps of C-camp clothing, but the ------- definitely surprised me. I think adults will find it creepier than kids, but hopefully it will get the children to want to learn more.The epilogue to the book very touching. This story is based on a true event from the life of Rabbi Grossman. Even though it is a sad tale, it does have a happy ending.
    • 5/5
      A heartachy, beautiful tale of two young Jewish boys.
    • 4/5
      Genre: HIstorical FictionFormat: Picture BookThe story takes place in 1946 when a young boy who arrives to New York. Daniel, now an orphan, arrives from Germany. Daniel is a very shy boy and he comes to live and study at a Jewish boarding school. Daniel brings a box with him, the mystery is whats inside of it. This is a powerful story especially if the student is not familiar with the holocaust. But in its short text, the author manages to develop a great and touching story teaching us the value of friendship and reminds of the deep significance of the holocaust.