The Night War

Informationen zum Autor Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (she/her) is the author of Newbery Honor winners Fighting Words and The War that Saved My Life . The sequel to the latter, The War I Finally Won , appeared on many state-award and best-books lists and was described as “stunning” by The Washington Post and “honest” and “daring” by The New York Times . Kimberly and her husband have two grown children and live with their dog, several po­nies, a highly opinionated mare, and a surplus of cats on a fifty-two acre farm in Bristol, Tennessee. Klappentext "From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words comes a middle grade novel set at the border between freedom and fear in World War II France, at the Chateau de Chenonceau, where a Jewish girl who has lost everything but her life must decide whether to risk even that to bring others to freedom."-- Leseprobe Chapter One July 10, 1942—Paris, France I could hear sirens. Sirens meant trouble. “Nothing to worry about, Miri,” Mama said, in her usual soft Yiddish. She didn’t look up from mending the pocket of my other dress. “You don’t know that,” I said. Her eyes flicked toward me. “It’s a fire engine, not a police sedan.” “You can tell the difference?” “I can.” I knew she meant to reassure me, but I didn’t quite believe her. To me the two sounded the same. Ever since Monsieur Rosenbaum had been taken away, nearly two years ago now, the sound of sirens made my stomach hurt and my vision swim. Mama thought she understood. I let her think she did. Now I took a deep breath. Released it slowly. Far below, the sirens continued. “I’m going up,” I said. My mother pressed her lips together. Papa insisted she let me climb onto the roof, but she hated it when I did. Our apartment was on the sixth floor of our building, so if I did fall I would splatter, but I never feared falling. The roof was the only place in Paris I felt safe. Nothing could touch me there. I moved our red geranium in its clay pot away from the window. I stretched one foot onto the top of the metal grille that kept things from falling out our window, grabbed the window frame, and heaved myself up so I was standing on the grille. From there it was easy to scramble up the slate tiles, still cool in the morning sun. Our window was a dormer on the top floor: It had its own little roof like a hat. I straddled the hat with my legs and let my head and shoulders rest against the main roof. I turned my face to the blue summer sky. Sirens still wailed, but I could breathe easier now. It had been my fault the Nazis took Monsieur Rosenbaum away. No one else knew that. I didn’t have the courage to confess it, not even to my mother. It happened not long after the Germans invaded Paris, in the summer of 1940 when I was ten. I’d been walking through the crowded streets of our neighborhood, the Pletzl, on my way home from school when I saw our neighbor Monsieur Rosenbaum standing in front of two German soldiers on the sidewalk just ahead of me. Monsieur Rosenbaum was talking to them, though I couldn’t hear his words. Suddenly the soldier with a dark mustache grabbed Monsieur Rosenbaum by one arm. With his other fist he punched Monsieur Rosenbaum in the face. Monsieur Rosenbaum’s head snapped back. Blood sprayed from his nose. I screamed. I ran forward and threw myself between him and the soldier. The soldier pushed me sideways, hard. I fell to the pavement, scraping my knees and biting the inside of my cheek. The other soldier looked down at me and said, “Is this your father, little girl?” I looked up at the three men. I tasted blood inside my mouth. My arms and legs, my entire body, froze. Only my head could move, and I shook it, to say no. I shook my head. “Well, then.” The first soldier kicked me aside. He and the other soldier shoved Monsie...

Product details

• Authors: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2024
• EAN: 9780735228566
• ISBN: 978-0-7352-2856-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 217 mm x 26 mm
• Subject: Children's and young people's books