A young reader was so enthusiastic about this novel, Bluebird by Sharon Cameron, that she persuaded me right then and there to purchase the book. So from the “rubble of Berlin” to the “streets of New York”, a thriller awaits me.

based on a true story

FAVORITE QUOTES

Remembering the past…“It’s always better to know. You should always know the things that happened. If you don’t know, then you can’t understand what justice is” (p105).

What was then is beginning to feel like what is now… “The world has inverted. Turned inside out. Right is wrong and wrong is right. Nothing is real. Nothing is true…In the old world, food and clothes were easy. Endless. They just appeared. This is the new world” (pp119, 130).

Reflections

“A PAGE-TURNER UNTIL THE END,” written by the Jewish Book Council concerning this novel, was not an understatement. As soon as I thought I knew where the storyline was headed, an unexpected turn of events occurred.

What I appreciated most was how realistic the atrocities of war were depicted and not romanticized. Too often, youth and young adult historical fiction seem to gloss over such horrors, failing to capture the reality of actual history, which is so essential to understand.

The novel’s historical significance was important to me as a reader further along in life. But if I were young, I would have appreciated most how the action never seemed to slow down. I don’t believe I’ve ever read a book that had me so captivated with the pace of the storyline until its final page. Well done!

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