''Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi'' is a 2000

young adult literature Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction written for readers from 12 to 18 years of age. While the genre is primarily targeted at adolescents, approximately half of YA readers are adults. The subject matter and genres of YA correlate ...

novel A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itsel ...

by German author

David Chotjewitz David Chotjewitz (born 14 May 1964 in Berlin) is a German writer and theatre director who lives in Hamburg. Life In 1967, his family moved to Rome, where Chotjewitz grew up until 1973. He attended the Italian primary school and later the Germa ...

, translated into English by

Doris Orgel Doris Orgel is an Austrian-born American children's literature author. She was born Doris Adelberg in Vienna, Austria on February 15, 1929. In the 1930s she fled Vienna with her parents due to her Jewish descent. She lives in New York City and ...

. The first US edition was published in 2004 by

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. The novel is set in

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

, Germany in flashback and forward between 1945 at the end of

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and in the 1930s, during the rise of the

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

party. It deals with the effects of

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on two friends. It has been cited in 16 award lists, including as a Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book.

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* 2004 German novels German children's novels Children's historical novels Novels about Nazi Germany Novels about racism Novels set in Germany Novels set in the 1930s Atheneum Books books Children's books set in Germany Children's books set in the 1930s Children's books set in the 1940s Children's books about antisemitism Children's books set during World War II {{2000s-WWII-novel-stub