By: Katrina Nannestad
Location: FIC NAN
Genre: Historical Fiction- War
Sometimes it's good to be wild.
Sometimes you have to be wild.
When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the war, the Wolf family must flee. Liesl, Otto and their baby sister Mia find themselves lost and alone, in a blizzard, in the middle of a war zone. Liesl has promised Mama that she will keep her brother and sister safe.
But sometimes, to survive, you have to do bad things. Dangerous things. Wild things.
Sometimes to survive, you must become a wolf.
Elizabeth says this...It is hard to put into words how good this children's historical fiction book was. This is one of those titles that is going to stick with me for a long time. If you are even on the fence about reading it, do it! The cover drew me in, but the story absolutely held my intrigue until the very end. It managed to teach me something about world war II that I had no idea about and it does it in a delicate way to teach other children. I can see this being mandatory reading in classrooms in the future like the title Number the Stars. Though the characters are fictional, I believe they represent the true victims of this tragedy well. Very sad but so good to read and a pleasure to learn from!
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