Berlin, 1932: In many ways Gabriella Schramm lives a charmed, carefree life. She loves her sister, Ulla. She loves her new literature teacher. She loves her family’s summer lake house, next door to Albert Einstein’s. And most of all Gaby loves books.
But soon she begins losing all these things, one by one, as Hitler climbs to power. People Gaby thought she could trust turn out to be Nazis. Many of her friends are fleeing or, worse, being taken away. And there’s something troubling about Ulla’s boyfriend that Gaby can’t quite figure out. As always, she turns to her books for comfort—but now even those are in jeopardy of disappearing. How can Gaby say good-bye to the way of life that she loves?
Newbery Honor winner and master of historical fiction Kathryn Lasky once again brings the past to life with this searing portrait of a nation on the brink of war, seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old girl. (Ages 12 and up)
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