Violence: PG (Nazi casual cruelty)
BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Maria, 11yo, and her friend Nathan are escaping their village in Ukraine by accepting jobs through the Reich Employment Office. A kind clerk sends them all the way to Austria as guest workers on Austrian farms, harvesting for the Nazi war machine. Nathan, however, is ordered off at Innsbruck – forced to work on a bridge building project. Maria continues on alone. She may be on a farm, but as a foreigner, she the least of the workers. It is a tightrope walk – not only do the Nazis keep a close eye to make sure she doesn’t receive any special treatment, but the daughter of the farmer is a member of the local Hitler Youth – her eagle eyes could cost Maria her life.
Skrypuch has finished the fourth book in her series about little-known parts of World War II. Each book of the quartet is lightly joined with the others. In this case Maria is the younger sister of Krystia, whom we met in Don’t Tell the Nazis.
Cindy, Library Teacher, MLS
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