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Almost Autumn by Marianne Kaurin

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Almost Autumn

Marianne Kaurin, Rosie Hedger

Scholastic Inc · Hardcover · January 3, 2017

Reading lane: Holocaust Stories (YA)

An international award-winning novel about sorrow, chance, and first love in World War II Norway!

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Authors
Marianne Kaurin, Rosie Hedger
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Published
January 3, 2017
Format
Hardcover
Theme
Holocaust Stories (YA) · Holocaust Stories
Reading lane
Holocaust Stories (YA)

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  • Historical YA — Europe

  • Holocaust Stories (YA)

  • YA Romance

About This Book

An international award-winning novel about sorrow, chance, and first love in World War II Norway! It's October 1942, in Oslo, Norway. Fifteenyear- old Ilse Stern is waiting to meet boy-nextdoor Hermann Rod for their first date. She was beginning to think he'd never ask her; she's had a crush on him for as long as she can remember. But Hermann won't be able to make it tonight. What Ilse doesn't know is that Hermann is secretly working in the Resistance, helping Norwegian Jews...

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An international award-winning novel about sorrow, chance, and first love in World War II Norway! It's October 1942, in Oslo, Norway. Fifteenyear- old Ilse Stern is waiting to meet boy-nextdoor Hermann Rod for their first date. She was beginning to think he'd never ask her; she's had a crush on him for as long as she can remember. But Hermann won't be able to make it tonight. What Ilse doesn't know is that Hermann is secretly working in the Resistance, helping Norwegian Jews flee the country to escape the Nazis. The work is exhausting and unpredictable, full of late nights and code words and lies to Hermann's parents, to his boss... to Ilse. And as life under German occupation becomes even more difficult, particularly for Jewish families like the Sterns, the choices made become more important by the hour: To speak up or to look away? To stay or to flee? To act now or wait one more day? In this internationally acclaimed debut, Marianne Kaurin recreates the atmosphere of secrecy and uncertainty in World War II Norway in a moving story of sorrow, chance, and first love.

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