prisonerofnightandfog

__ Prisoner of Night and Fog __ by Anne Blankman ISBN: 978-0-545-83822-1 ©2014 389 pages

-p. 34 where she receives a letter from this reporter
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Our main character, a young German girl named Gretchen, has grown up knowing Adolf Hitler as “Uncle Dolf.” After her father was killed (in an apparent attempt to save Hitler), Gretchen and her family have kept in close contact with Uncle Dolf (Gretchen more so as she is his favorite). Gretchen is contacted early on in the book by a reporter who is Jewish. He tells her he has important information about her father’s death. She is torn whether or not to meet with him, yet any information about her father’s death interests her since she still has so many questions. Ultimately the decisions Gretchen makes in the book to discover the truth are very tough and life and death (as she also deals with a mean and horrible older brother and a mother who tends to look the other way).
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YA fiction: historical fiction; Germany; death; Jews; World War II; brothers and sisters


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