This story is based on true events during WWII. Milada is an eleven-year-old who is taken from her Czech family because of her blond hair and blue eyes. She spends almost two years in a training facility where she learns to be a perfect German girl. Part of the training was to indoctrinate the girls into believing the Nazi ideology of the "perfect race," Aryanism.
The story is very good, but I felt it read a little young. Once I got past/over that, I really enjoyed it. It is written in a manner that more sensitive or younger readers will most likely be able to handle without too much distress (doesn't get very graphic unlike many WWII books). One particularly good aspect is that the book features events many aren't familiar with from WWII. The story is both amazing and sad.
Genre: historical fiction (WWII)
Topics: Lebensborn, Lidice, Czechoslovakia, Ravensbruck, brainwashing, Nazis, adoption, Aryan, World War II, friendship, remembering who you are, remembering where you come from, Holocaust
Mrs. Beckwith's rating: 4 of 5 (highly recommend for Holocaust fiction)
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