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book-review

  • Screams In The Night: another good YA World War Two Novel

    I happened to pick this book up in a used bookstore because the combination of young adult and WW2 historical literature interests me. It’s Brian Crawford’s story of Julia, a teenage farm girl growing up in Nazi-occupied Poland during the second world war. In addition to the struggles of living under the Nazis, she must keep the farm functioning despite her stepfather’s alcoholism.   She thinks her life is complicated enough, until Read more

  • between shades of gray

    A Novel You Simply Must Read! A fellow writer acquaintance recommended I read Between Shades of Gray and it’s one of the best pieces of advice I have ever followed.   When Ruta Sepetys published Between Shades of Gray she immediately had a problem in that the title was similar to that horribly written novel Read more