Kathy Kacer

Kathy has won many awards for her writing, including the Silver Birch, the Red Maple, the Hackmatack and the Jewish Book Award. In 1999 she wrote her first book in Second Story's Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers, The Secret of Gabi's Dresser. Since then she has penned five other books for the series: The Underground Reporters, Clara's War, The Night Spies, Hiding Edith, and The Diary of Laura's Twin. Her first adult book is the non-fiction Restitution: A family's fight for their heritage lost in the Holocaust.

The rights to her books have been sold to many countries, including Germany, China, Italy, Thailand, England, Japan, and Slovenia. She has adapted The Secret of Gabi's Dresser into a successful play. A former psychologist who worked with troubled teens, Kathy now writes about the Holocaust for young readers and travels the country speaking about it. She also addresses adults about how to teach sensitive material to young children. Kathy lives in Toronto with her family. Click here to visit Kathy Kacer's website Kathy Kacer is available for school and library readings, workshops, and presentations. Click here to watch an interview with Kathy about her book Restitution: A family's fight for their heritage lost in the Holocaust Listen to an interview with Kathy on The Book of Life podcast:

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Previous titles by Kathy Kacer

To Hope and Back

An ocean-liner carrying Jewish passengers can find no safe harbour Lisa and Sol board the luxury ship St. Louis in Hamburg, Germany on May 13, 1939 with mixed feelings. Lisa and her family are in ... more

Restitution

Europe, on the eve of the Second World War, and a Jewish family feels the Nazi danger closing in Led by their indomitable mother, Marie, the Reesers make a daring escape from under the watchful ey... more

The Diary of Laura's Twin

A mysterious diary links modern-day Laura to Sara, a young Jewish girl fighting to stay alive during WWII Laura has just three weeks to go before her Jewish coming of age ceremony, called a Bat Mi... more

Hiding Edith

The true story of Edith Schwalb, a young Jewish girl who was saved from the Nazis by the courage of the entire French village of Moissac Edith's story is remarkable not only for her own bravery, b... more

The Underground Reporters

In Budejovice, a quiet village in Czechoslovakia, laws and rules were introduced to restrict the freedom of Jewish people during the dark days of World War II. A small plot of land by the river was... more

The Night Spies

Based on real events and real characters It is the middle of World War II, and Gabi and her mother have been lucky so far, eluding the grasp of Nazi soldiers who are sending Jewish people away to ... more

Clara's War

From the Silver Birch Award-winning author of The Secret of Gabi's Dresser.   It's a dangerous time for thirteen-year-old Clara and her family. They have just been imprisoned in Terezin (Ter... more

The Secret of Gabi's Dresser

Based on the true story of how the author's mother was hidden from the Nazis The heroine, Gabi, recounts how as a young Jewish girl she lived on a family farm in Eastern Europe during the Second W... more