Books set in WWII
2020 Random House (kindle 2020)
ISBN 9781101934135
- Junior Library Guild selection
- 2021 Best Children’s Books of the Year List, Bank Street College
KIRKUS:Two Italian sisters try to survive in Japan during World War II…a long and treacherous journey … in a country that now sees them as the enemy…an unusual perspective on …a history rarely told
HORN BOOK:…becomes a survival story…what saves them are Simona’s strength and determination but also the sisters’ assimilation into and respect for Japanese culture…told with immediacy, compassion, and nuance
SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL:…a stunning look at the humanity of the Japanese and Italians during World War II… an enthralling story of sisterhood amongst harrowing war.
BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S BOOKS:…Simona and Carolina’s story is one of the power of sisterhood and survival, thrown into a country they know nothing about and adapting under dire circumstances.
1997 Dutton (pb 1999) (ebook 2015)
ISBN 0-525-45842-5
SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL:
… Few books view the Holocaust from this vantage point…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY:…Children will be riveted by Roberto’s struggle to stay alive — and aid others along the way — against enormous odds...
KIRKUS:… Riveting… A memorable survival story…
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- Golden Kite Award of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators 1998
- Sydney Taylor Book Award presented by the Association of Jewish Libraries 1998
- Carolyn W. Field Honor Book, Pennsylvania Library Association
- nominated Nebraska Golden Sower Young Adult Award
- nominated Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award of Illinois
- North Carolina Battle of the Books 2012-2013
- American Library Association Best Books
- American Library Association Notable
- National Council of Social Studies Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Best Books
- boxed starred review PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
- starred review SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
- New York Public Library Best Books
- nominated Allen White Children’s Book Award, Kansas
- nominated Young Hoosier Book Award, Indiana
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award Master List, Vermont
- nominated Maud Hart Lovelace Award, Minnesota
- in braille and audiocassette National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
- Audiobook (ISBN 978-0525-59691
- in Dutch (1998 Averbode SAMEN STERK ISBN 90-317-1381-3)
- in Danish (1999 Carlsen SOM STEN I VAND ISBN 87-562-8086-6)
- UK edition (1999 Oxford U Press ISBN 0-19-271798-7, also in paperback)
- in German (2001 Carl Hanser Verlag FLUCHT NACH VENEDIG ISBN 3-446-20012-6)
- in Korean (2008 Pulbit Publishing Co. ISBN 978-89-7474-621-6)
Performed as drama at Media Theatre, Media, PA, 2003
(sequel to STONES IN WATER)
2006 Dutton (pb 2008)
ISBN 0-525-47751-9
- Carolyn W. Field Honor Book, Pennsylvania Library Association
KIRKUS:… powerful.. strong, action-packed ode to the Italian resistance movement… a side of WWII that will fascinate readers…
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