My Family for the War
Author: Anne C. Voorhoeve
Desc: Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder medal for most oustanding children's book in translation. Escaping Nazi Germany on the kindertransport changes one girl's life forever At the start of World War II ten-year-old Franziska Mangold is torn from her family when she boards the kindertransport in Berlin the train that secretly took nearly 10 000 children out of Nazi territory to safety in England. Taken in by strangers who soon become more like family than her real parents Frances (as she is now known) courageously pieces together a new life for herself because she doesn't know when or if she'll see her true family again. Against the backdrop of war-torn London Frances struggles with questions of identity family and love and these experiences shape her into a dauntless charming young woman. Originally published in Germany Anne Voorhoeve's award-winning novel is filled with humor danger and romance.