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Meh.

It was ok, not what I expected. It is clearly a child's book and why it was in the adult section under war with a YA label on it, I don't understand, this is a book suitably written for a 4th grader. I suppose the author did not wish to write a full length book complete with details for an adult audience.

It is also very dead panned and unemotional. She simply states ' They shot my mother ' and that was that.

It is a good introduction to the horrors of Poland between 1939-1945 for a young reader, an adult with a need for or love of history or personal memoirs will be left wanting. ( )

Short easy read that is still powerful. Good for school. ( )

I have read many such books of children who were hidden during war times. this short retelling of personal experience is different somehow whether it is the icon of hope --. the dress her mother embroidered -- or living for 9 months in a small hole beneath the floor of the barn. How did these hidden children grow up to become productive members of society? ( )

This books is short and sweet. A book about the Holocast combined with a girls fight for survival was a great combination. ( )