The Stolen Ones

My name is Inge. I am sixteen.

I live with Mama and Papa in Munich. Food is still rationed, though the war ended over ten years ago.

My boyfriend is Jewish. I have to hide this from my parents.

I think they are hiding something from me, too. Letters arrive every year on my birthday, but they are not addressed to me. They are for a girl named Kasia. This is her story.

'Powerful and harrowing' Mail on Sunday

'A haunting beauty of a novel' Irish Times

About the author

Vanessa Curtis is an award-winning author of books for teens and children, including Zelah Green which won the Manchester Children's Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, and The Earth is Singing, winner of the Young Quills Historical Association Award, shortlisted for Peters Books of the Year Award and longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. She was also one of the co-founders of The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and is the author of two biographies on Virginia Woolf. Vanessa also reviews books for the national newspapers and runs The Curtis Children's Literary Consultancy, specialising in YA fiction.

Summary

My name is Inge. I am sixteen. I live in Munich. Food is still rationed, though the war ended over ten years ago. My boyfriend is Jewish. I have to hide this from my parents. Sometimes I think they are hiding something from me, too. Letters arrive every year on my birthday, but they are addressed to a girl named Kasia. This is her story.

Report

A future classic. Gazette & Herald

Product details

• Authors: Vanessa Curtis, Curtis Vanessa
• Publisher: Usborne Publishing
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 14 to 17
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781474915038
• ISBN: 978-1-4749-1503-8
• No. of pages: 348
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Dating & Sex, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / Historical, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Assimilation, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / War & Military, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Adoption, Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Interest age: from c 14 years, Children’s / Teenage social topics: War and conflict issues