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Shortlisted of the Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominee
For Jews in Nazi-occupied Paris, every day brings new dangers. So when Odette's father is thrown into a work camp and the Nazis suspect her mother of helping the Resistance, Odette is sent to the French countryside until it is safe to return. On the surface, Odette leads the life of a regular girl, going to school, doing chores, even attending Catholic masses with other children. But inside, she is burning with secrets for the life she left behind, and the identity she must hide at all costs. Yet when the war ends, the cost of keeping secrets takes an unexpected toll: can Odette return to Paris as a Jew, or has she changed too much? Inspired by the life of the real Odette Meyer, this moving free-verse novel is a story of triumph over adversity.
Published | Feb 26 2013 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 224 |
ISBN | 9781599909257 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury USA Childrens |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
* Elegant. . . . Thoughtful [and] affecting.
Kirkus Reviews, starred review
An engaging, well-written book providing a unique glimpse into history. . . . This is an excellent choice for young readers looking for historical fiction, fiction in verse, Holocaust fiction, or an engaging story of survival and courage.
VOYA, on Odette's Secrets
The free-verse narration opts for directness over lyricism, allowing Odette's terror, confusion, and gradual acceptance of her new life and new familiarity with God to come through in a very personal way. Macdonald delicately balances the reader's happiness that the heroine survives with an understanding of her deep, permanent sorrow for her people, ones she knew and ones she didn't.
Horn Book, on Odette's Secrets
Intimately and lyrically, Odette's Secrets traces all the identities a young French girl must access to survive, and all the friends she needs to stand between herself and the Holocaust.
Richard Peck, Newbery-winning author
In deceptively simple but highly evocative language, Macdonald has distilled events from long ago and made them fresh and compelling for today's readers. Original, beautiful, spare and haunting, Odette's Secrets is a major addition to the literature of this period.
Yona Zeldis McDonough, author of The Doll With the Yellow Star
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