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Reviewed on January 1, 2018 | Middle to High School
Gr 5–8—The latest in the series is about the real experiences of Walter, a young Jewish boy, who fled Nazi Germany with his family to go into hiding in the Netherlands. Wees uses letters that Walter wrote to his granddaughter in the 1990s as the narrative structure to provide background and context, combining them with the wartime letters he wrote to his grandmother Oma that describe events when he and his family were "shadows." The story begins...Log In or Sign Up to Read More