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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2008
Gr 5-8 Eleven-year-old Kata is still too much a child to understand the political tensions swirling around her in post-World War II Hungary where her once-successful father has become depressed, her mother illegally sells stuffed animals, and her older brother flees to the West. Kata's clear, first-person voice never loses the child's point of view. Even as her older neighbor change...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2008
In postWWII Budapest, a young Jewish girl struggles to understand the violence and dreadful changes happening in her country. H...Log In or Sign Up to Read More