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Originally Posted by Quoth
Mixing The Holocaust and fiction is often (always?) a bad idea. I can't imagine why this won an award.
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It's also a young adult novel. Fictional narratives can be more compelling than real ones, because they help the reader to become attached to the characters better than they may when reading biographies about historical events. This is especially true with younger readers.
That, along with it being very well written is why it won awards.