Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf
Length: 127 pages
Price: $5.87
Author Website: http://www.joanmwolf.com/Joan_M_Wolf/Home.html (photo credit)
Basic Premise: Eva is a young girl from Czechoslovakia with perfect blue eyes and blonde hair who is torn from her family and forced into a different life - a German life.
My Take: 9 out of 10 (scale here)
This is such a great book. Set during the reign of Nazi Germany, this book follows a young girl who fits Hitler's Aryan profile, with blonde hair, blue eyes, and the perfect nose. She is ripped from her family and forced to turn her back on the life she once knew. She is taught German customs and language, and the more she learns, the more she starts to forget about her former life. It is a fictional story, but it's based on actual events. I first read this book on the recommendation of a YAL expert whose conference I attended. I was intrigued by the premise and picked it up immediately. I just finished rereading it with my Breakfast Club kids at school, and it's just as great now as it was before. It's lendable, so if you have a Nook and want to borrow I'd be happy to lend it to you!
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