Taken from her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans," then adopted by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history.A little more information about Joan M. Wolf on About the Author section on her website.
What is another book from this time period that you would recommend?
8 comments:
It was a really good book. Anyone who would want to read about WW2 should read this book.
Allison in 5C
Allison,
I think people should read books about WW2, too, but sometimes they make me so sad, I just don't want to read them.
Ms. R.
This is my 2nd WW2 book. They were both so sad I started crying in the middle.
Payton in 6H
What was your first WW2 book, Payton? Would you recommend this book to others even though it is sad?
It was 7 stories of kids in WW2 that survied and lived a normal life afterward. I would recommend it to others because it really was inspiring.
Payton in 6H
I really enjoyed this book. If you enjoy books on the Holocaust and WW2, I definitely recommend this book. I think it really showed a different side of the Holocaust, instead of stories about living through concentration camps and hiding from the Nazis, it shows what the kids that were considered "Aryan"(or the "perfect German.") had to go through and the challenges they had to face.
Morgan in 6H
I am reccomending the following book on this book's comments because it had to do with WW2 and the Holocaust. I reccomend reading A Friend Called Anne, it is told in the perspective of Anne Frank's best friend Jacquleine van Maarsen. It tells of the friendship between them and the experiences they have together. When Anne is in hiding it focuses more on Jacquleine and how she, even though a Jew, escapes the fate of hiding or being "relocated" by the Germans. At the end I cried my eyes out. And even though I read it not to long ago I don't even remember the end, and in my opinion I'm kind of o.k with that, all I know is that it's got a sad ending. So, if you read this book I would have tissues near by. But what I'm trying to say is it's a really good book and I highly reccomend it if you have an intrest in the Holocaust. Like I said in another comment, it gives a whole other side into the Holocaust. It doesn't just show the sad endings, but the hopes from others that friends will return home. The whole fact that Jacquleine stays in hope that Anne will return home astonishes me and shows how much she cared for her. But instead she later figures out what happened to Anne when she mysteriosly disappears with her family. Anne writes a letter explaining but it is not found until after the war by, I believe Jacquleine... But you'll just have to read to see if I'm right or wrong.
Morgan 6H
I think that you have a good point Morgan in 6H. All books tell what it is like to be Jewish but not very many tell the other side.
Payton in 6H
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