The war I finally won / Kimberly Brubaker Bradley.
Material type:
TextSeries: Thorndike Press large print middle readerPublisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019Copyright date: ©2017Edition: Large print editionDescription: 461 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781432865870
- 1432865870
- 9781432865887
- 1432865889
- Great Britain -- History -- George VI, 1936-1952 -- Juvenile fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- Great Britain -- Juvenile fiction
- Guardian and ward -- Juvenile fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- Orphans -- Juvenile fiction
- Jews -- Great Britain -- Juvenile fiction
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Bradley Kimberly | 2 | Available | 33111009556248 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A New York Times BestsellerA Newbery Honor-Winning AuthorWhen Ada's clubfoot is surgically fixed at last, she knows for certain that she's not what her mother said she was -- damaged, deranged, crippled mentally as well as physically. She's not a daughter anymore, either. Who is she now?World War II rages on, and Ada and her brother, Jamie, move with their guardian, Susan, into a cottage with the iron-faced Lady Thorton and her daughter, Maggie. Life in the crowded home is tense. Then Ruth moves in. Ruth, a Jewish girl, from Germany. A German? Could Ruth be a spy?As the fallout from war intensifies, calamity creeps closer, and life during wartime grows even more complicated. Who will Ada decide to be? How can she keep fighting? And who will she struggle to save?Grades 5-9 | Ages 9-13 | Lexile HL520L
Originally published in a slightly different form by Dial Books for Young Readers in 2017.
"As the frightening impact of World War II creeps closer and closer to her door, eleven-year-old Ada learns to manage life on the home front"-- Provided by publisher.