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WorksViktor Frankl: A Life Worth Living
This Young Adult biography is the compelling account of how one man forged a life of triumph in the crucible of the Holocaust. In 1942 Viktor Frankl, the founder of logotherapy and later the author of Man's Search for Meaning, had just begun his career as a psychiatrist and neurologist in Vienna when he was deported to the first of 4 concentration camps. The story begins with Frankl's childhood and teen years and goes on to tell how Frankl lived his belief that a person can survive the most horrific conditions by finding meaning in them. Illustrated with Holocaust images and family photographs. AWARDS • Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People by the National Council for the Social Studies and Children's Book Council, 2007 • Bank Street Best Children's Books of the Year, 2007 • New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, 2007 • Society of School Librarians International Honor Book, 2007 REVIEWS "...a good Holocaust book forces readers to think about their own lives in two ways: What would I have done then? What connection and moral choices must I make now?...[This] is exactly the power and glory of [this] biography of Viktor Frankl." ~Ottawa Jewish Bulletin "The author successfully illuminates how the Holocaust deeply affected Frankl's life and career, as he continued to find meaning through his writing, lecturing and his practice." ~Publishers Weekly |
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