I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944, by Lauren Tarshis (Scholastic Books, 2014, 112 pages, $4.99, ages 7-11, grades 2-5), one of 23 historical disaster books for kids, book nine in the series. Fiction books in non-fiction settings. Reviewed by Skye Anderson.
What can be more interesting, intriguing, spell-binding than history told through the eyes of the children who lived it?
Max and his little sister Zena survive in a Jewish ghetto but manage to escape from the Nazis in 1944 and stay with partisans in the forest. They meet up with their beloved aunt and then. . . the bombs fall.
Author Lauren Tarshis has done it again: told a story set in true times, in a true place but with kids from her imagination. Feeling a bit scared, the reader is saved by the author telling only one small segment of the long war and ending in 1947. In some books, she will begin with the event but then spend a few chapters in the lead-up.
What Would I Change?
Like so many other books, this reviewer would prefer to have the chapter titles in words not merely numbers. For example, "Sabotage" or "Plotting with Maps" rather than just Chapter 7. This would make for a more memorable book but, nevertheless, all books in the series are simply exciting. (And, educational!)
Other Books
I Survived Mount St. Helens
I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor
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