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Briar Rose / Jane Yolen.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
YF YOLE	Youth		Campsie .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780765382948 (paperback)
Name	Yolen, Jane author.
Title	Briar Rose / Jane Yolen.
Edition	First trade paperback edition.
Published	New York : Tor, 2016.
Published	©1992.
Description	271 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes	Originally published, 1992.
	"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
	"A novel of the Holocaust"--Cover.
Summary	Ever since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma's stories about Briar Rose. But a promise Rebecca makes to her dying grandmother leads her on a remarkable journey to uncover her grandmother's astonishing claim: I am Briar Rose. Her journey leads her to the brutality and horror of the Nazi holocaust in war time Poland, where the wall of thorns becomes a barbed-wire prison and the sleeping princess is both victim and heroine.
Target audience note	Ages 13-17.
Subjects	Sleeping Beauty (Tale) -- Adaptations
	Fairy tales -- Adaptations
	Grandmothers -- Fiction
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction
	Youth fiction
Genre	Fantasy fiction
Genre	Fairy tales
Series	Fairy tale series (New York, N.Y.)
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Fairy tales . Fairy tales -- Adaptations . Fantasy fiction . Grandmothers -- Fiction . Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction . Sleeping Beauty (Tale) -- Adaptations . World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction . Youth fiction . See Also: Children's stories . Tales . Fiction . Ghost stories . Science fiction . Authors: Yolen, Jane . Series: Fairy tale series (New York, N.Y.) .