"When I was told my father was dead, I ran away...I reached the pine grove, and there I flung myself down, hugged the damp earth, and waited." Against a pre-Hitler backdrop rarely viewed in young adult novels, Lena Katz suddenly learns that the Germany for which her father died is now considered part of Poland. She grows up torn between her desire to leave and her allegiance to her mother, who ignores the country's growing anti-Semitism. Then Janusz, a handsome young idealist, enters Lena's world and alters her life forever.
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"When I was told my father was dead, I ran away...I reached the pine grove, and there I flung myself down, hugged the damp earth, and waited." Against a pre-Hitler backdrop rarely viewed in young adult novels, Lena Katz suddenly learns that the Germany for which her father died is now considered part of Poland. She grows up torn between her desire to leave and her allegiance to her mother, who ignores the country's growing anti-Semitism. Then Janusz, a handsome young idealist, enters Lena's world and alters her life forever.
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