Recommended Age:
13
+
Great for independent readers who enjoy immersive, suspenseful, character-driven narratives.
About the Book
Sixteen-year-old Chaya is a courier for the Jewish resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland, smuggling news, money, and weapons into the ghetto, and when her mission is compromised she must flee through forests and sewers toward the only chance of survival. A visceral and historically grounded novel about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. One of Nielsen's most emotionally serious works.
Content Ratings
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Intense Themes
The book immerses readers in the lived reality of the Holocaust — starvation, mass murder, family separation, and the systematic dehumanization of Jewish people — with unflinching historical honesty.
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High Violence
Systematic murder of civilians, massacres, armed resistance combat, and destruction are depicted with historical directness. Violence is sustained and emotionally devastating.
Engagement:
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Published:
2018
Page Count:
385
