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| Original Title: | In Face of Danger |
| ISBN: | 0863910483 (ISBN13: 9780863910487) |
| Setting: | Germany |
| Literary Awards: | Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1979) |
Mara Kay
Hardcover | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 3.69 | 32 Users | 3 Reviews
Details Appertaining To Books Storm Warning
| Title | : | Storm Warning |
| Author | : | Mara Kay |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | September 20th 1984 by John Goodchild Publishers (first published 1976) |
| Categories | : | War. World War II. Holocaust. Historical. Historical Fiction. Childrens. Juvenile |
Narrative As Books Storm Warning
"But there's nothing wrong with the Nazi regime," argued Ann. It was true that somehow the atmosphere was changing around them in Germany that summer of 1938. Foreigners seemed less welcome, and an inordinate amount of war material was on the move, scarcely camouflaged now. Still, people seemed clean and tidy and prosperous. "You should know what's wrong after typing all my articles," Uncle Dick had replied. "Don't imagine Hitler a benefactor to the German people." Neither of them could know that within a few weeks Ann would be living with total strangers, in a house with a secret which was to involve her in a dangerous and desperate venture. Events were to teach her in no uncertain terms just what the Nazi regime meant to ordinary decent people, and that things could be wrong beyond all imagination. This is the story of what it was like before the storm broke.Rating Appertaining To Books Storm Warning
Ratings: 3.69 From 32 Users | 3 ReviewsColumn Appertaining To Books Storm Warning
A piece of WWII historical fiction that helps understand the dangers of being Jewish in Nazi Germany. A very good read, but the final escape seems very unlikely.A piece of WWII historical fiction that helps understand the dangers of being Jewish in Nazi Germany. A very good read, but the final escape seems very unlikely.
It was ok.
This is a book that takes place just before and at the start of World War II in Europe. Ann Lindsay and her father have been on a trip, and they end up in an accident, forcing a stay in the hospital for her father. Ann is taken in by an older woman who has a secret.Ann eventually finds out that the woman is hiding two Jewish girls in her house. A lot of the book shows how the attitude of Germans at the time was changing, and we see various acts of anti-Jewish prejudice, along with outright
The author of a number of children's novels, many of them works of historical fiction set in Russia or Yugoslavia, Mara Kay was (according to the dust-jacket blurb of The Burning Candle) "of Russian extraction, was brought up in Yugoslavia, but has lived in America since 1950."
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