Skip to main content
The Top Book List
Cover of Upon the Head of the Goat by Aranka Siegal

Book · Middle Grade

Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944

by Aranka Siegal

213 pages · 1981

Honors

Get the book

We may earn a commission when you buy through links on this page. It never affects which books we recommend. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

About the book

Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.

For parents

No age or grade range recorded. · Lexile 830L

Grade ranges are editorial guidance. Every reader is different.

No content notes recorded.