![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Memorable characters? Plenty, including Jewish refugee and math whiz Ruth, whom Lady Thorton despises for being German. Details of life on the WWII home front? Check: food rationing fire-watching blackout curtains pig clubs. But once she, younger brother Jamie, and guardian Susan are back in their village, adjusting to the cavernous “cottage” Lady Thorton lends them after their own house was destroyed by a bomb, the story settles in, and we settle in with it. 1/15) begins with high drama: surgery for London-slum-born Ada to correct her clubfoot the news that abusive Mam has died Ada’s mistaken belief that she’ll now be sent to an orphanage - and her complicated feelings about all of it. This sequel to Bradley’s Newbery Honor–winning The War That Saved My Life (rev. ![]()
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