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ISBN-10: 166592974X
ISBN-13: 9781665929745
Author: Kessler, Liz
Interest Level: 3-7
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: May 2025

Copyright: 2023

Page Count: 336

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Interest Level

Grades 3-7

Reading Level

Guided Reading: Y
Accelerated Reader Level: 4.2
Accelerated Reader Points: 10.0

BISAC Subjects

JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Holocaust

JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / Europe

Description
A young girl learns of her grandmother and great-aunt's involvement in the Dutch Resistance during World War II in this heartbreaking middle grade story of family, history, resilience, and hope from acclaimed author Liz Kessler. Thirteen-year-old Liv's beloved ninety-two-year-old grandmother, Oma, is moving into a home where she can be cared for as her dementia worsens. As Liv helps her father empty Oma's house, she finds an old chest which opens up a whole world that Liv never knew about: the hidden world of Oma's childhood. Through the letters and other mementos, Liv learns that Oma, given name Mila, had a sister, Eva, that no one in Liv's family ever knew about. In 1942, Mila and Eva are sent away from their parents to a non-Jewish family so they will survive the war. Twelve-year-old Mila believes that they will soon be reunited with their parents and go back to their normal lives, but fourteen-year-old Eva knows better, and soon gets involved in the Resistance. Eva takes on more and more dangerous assignments until a betra
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