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I inadvertently read this right after another Holocaust novel, but the stories are so different in perspective that the ending effect was very different as well.
I never go around to reading this as a child, for some reason, and I don't know why, because it's quite well done, and does just the right balance of telling a serious story from a child's perspective TO a child, but in a way that isn't overwhelming and frightening, but rather serious and hopeful. True, it does not end the way that many ...more
I never go around to reading this as a child, for some reason, and I don't know why, because it's quite well done, and does just the right balance of telling a serious story from a child's perspective TO a child, but in a way that isn't overwhelming and frightening, but rather serious and hopeful. True, it does not end the way that many ...more
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Shannon Lionheart
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it was amazing
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