16-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. She's a pilot who's always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on earth. But since the Germans surrounded Stalingrad, Valya's been forced to stay on the ground and watch her city crumble. When her mother is killed during the siege, V
This Light Between Us: a Novel of World War II
โ Scribed by Andrew Fukuda
- Publisher
- Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 662 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 125076257X
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โฆ Synopsis
From award-winning YA author Andrew Fukuda comes The Light Between Us , a powerfully affecting story of World War II about the unlikeliest of pen pals--a Japanese American boy and a French Jewish girl--as they fight to maintain hope in a time of war.
"I remember visiting Manzanar Camp in California and standing in the windswept plains where over ten _thousand internees were once imprisoned, their voices cut off. I remember how much I wanted to write a story that did right by them. Hopefully this book delivers." --_Andrew Fukuda
In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki from Bainbridge Island, Washington is disgusted when he's forced to become pen pals with Charlie Lรฉvy of Paris, France--a girl. He thought she was a boy. In spite of Alex's reluctance, their letters continue to fly across the Atlantic--and along with them the shared hopes and dreams of friendship. Until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the...
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