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Sheltering Rebecca
In the days before the Second World War, twelve-year-old Sally becomes friends with Rebecca, a young Jewish refugee from Germany
112 pages, Paperback
First published September 26, 1991
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April 12, 2020
After my unfinished re-read of my Diana Wynne Jones books last year, this year while in social isolation I plan to get through as many of my unread books as possible. I'm starting with the shorter ones!
This book harks back to a time when I kept being given books with "Rebecca" in the title. As such, I probably never would have come across this book otherwise. It's quite a good little book, set in wartime England around the friendship between two schoolgirls - one a local lass, the other a Jewish refugee. It's quite gentle in its revelations of the reality of war, but covers a wide range of impacts as well. It's aimed at around 12-year-olds I think.
This book harks back to a time when I kept being given books with "Rebecca" in the title. As such, I probably never would have come across this book otherwise. It's quite a good little book, set in wartime England around the friendship between two schoolgirls - one a local lass, the other a Jewish refugee. It's quite gentle in its revelations of the reality of war, but covers a wide range of impacts as well. It's aimed at around 12-year-olds I think.
May 14, 2014
gr 4-7 99 pgs
1938-1945, England. Told as a flashback, the story follows the friendship between Sally Simpkin and Rebecca Muller. To Sally, the war seems far off until she meets Rebecca who is a Jewish refugee who escaped from Germany with the help of the Trevelyan family that took her in. Over the course of the Simpkin family and Trevelyan family and the girls grow closer and offer each other help when they need it.
Offers a look at how WWII affected the lives of people living in England and the lives of the refugees living there. For a more in depth look, I would recommend the trilogy by Irene Watts, which starts with "Good-Bye, Marianne".
1938-1945, England. Told as a flashback, the story follows the friendship between Sally Simpkin and Rebecca Muller. To Sally, the war seems far off until she meets Rebecca who is a Jewish refugee who escaped from Germany with the help of the Trevelyan family that took her in. Over the course of the Simpkin family and Trevelyan family and the girls grow closer and offer each other help when they need it.
Offers a look at how WWII affected the lives of people living in England and the lives of the refugees living there. For a more in depth look, I would recommend the trilogy by Irene Watts, which starts with "Good-Bye, Marianne".
September 28, 2008
A brief but direct telling of the British home front before and during WWII. Sally and Rebecca Muller, a Jewish refugee from Germany under Hitler, become good friends, although Sally is solidly working class and Rebecca lives with a wealthy British activist. The book does not pull punches about what happened to the Jews left in Germany, so the book is not for very young children, despite the easy chapter book format.
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