PublishedAbc Books, November 2022 |
ISBN9780733342271 |
FormatHardcover, 352 pages |
Dimensions22cm × 16.2cm × 3.5cm |
The powerful new novel from master storyteller Katrina Nannestad.
I don't want to remember the truck, or the night I was taken, or the family I left behind. I am not a sad Polish girl. I am a good and happy German girl.
I am. I am. I am.
It's the Second World War and Himmler's Lebensborn Program is in full flight when eight-year-old Zofia Ulinski is kidnapped by the Germans. She has blonde hair and blue eyes, just like the other Polish children taken from their families and robbed of their names, their language, their heritage.
But when Zofia is adopted into a wealthy and loving German family, it is easier, it is safer to bury her past, deep down, so everything is forgotten. Until the Polish boy arrives.
And the past comes back to haunt her.
From Katrina Nannestad, multi-award-winning author of We Are Wolves and Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief, comes a story about family lost and found, and the choices we make when we don't have a choice at all.
AWARDS
Notable - CBCA Younger Reader's Book 2023
Longlisted - Book Links 2023 Award for Children's Historical Fiction
Winner - QLD Literary Awards 2023 (Children's Book Award)
