Lois Lowry - Number the Stars (1989)

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The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after,

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She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.

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King Christian X, king of Denmark, used to ride through the streets of Denmark on his horse and wave to the people of Denmark. A German soldier said to a boy; "Where is his body guard?", and the boy said "All of Denmark is his bodyguard". This is reportedly true.

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Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.

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And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

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