30 May 2007

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

At the library book sale last year I picked up this book, which i remember noticing when I was a kid. I went through this phase where I only read books about World War II and the Holocaust. I'm not sure what my obsession was, if it was morbid fascination at the atrocities we can visit upon one another, or if it was something different. Either way, I never read this one, that I recall. I read it on sunday, that is the glory of YA lit, you can read a whole one in a couple hours. It's actually pretty remarkable, smart, and not too morbid. Its a little younger than a lot of the books I've been reading lately (ALA says 9-12) The girl in it is very real, and her internal struggles are exquisitely written, you know exactly what she's thinking, and you remember thinking those things too, even though her experiences are so different.

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