Genre: Adult, Young Adult, Historical Fiction
Source: Purchased I was first introduced to this
book last year while teaching Pre-Ap English. There was an excerpt in it from
three character’s perspective in our textbook.
Once of my students asked if I knew there was a movie about it. I did
not because I prefer to read a book first.
Marie is blind and her father
works for a museum. When the Nazi’s invade her father takes her and they leave
to live with her great-uncle. The other
character we meet is Werner. He is an orphan. He has a talent for fixing
radios. Unfortunately he’s not supposed to be listening to the radio. The Germans take him and he is forced to use
his skills to try to locate whoever has been leaving messages to guide the
resistance. This is where his path and Marie’s cross.
There were a couple of things I
really enjoyed about this book, besides the story itself. The chapters are short. We get glimpses of
each of the character’s story as well as what happened to them at the end of the
story. I am one of those readers who will often read the ending to find out
what happened and then go back to fill in all of the blanks. I didn’t have to
do that with this book as the reader knows the outcome of some of the characters
before the end of the book.
By the way, the movie is just as
awesome.
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