A time to be brave
Joan Betty Stuchner
David and his family live in Denmark during the Nazi occupation, until September 1943 when their neighbors help smuggle them to Sweden to escape Hitler's orders to send the Danish Jews to concentration camps.
Read Time: ~2.2 hr
Daughter of light
by Martha Attema (2001)
About this book
In 1944, Friesland, Netherlands, Nine year old Ria wishes the Nazis would go home. Since they invaded, her best friend and her family, who are Jewish, were taken away, her father has been forced to go into hiding, and electricity in the city almost never works for anyone except the Nazis and their sympathizers. Ria is worried about her pregnant mother. The baby should come any day or night now. How can they deliver a baby in a cold, dark house?
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreDaughter of light Lead Character
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