This is an historical fiction novel-in-verse for a 9-14 year-old audience. It is based on the real life of Odette Meyers, a young Jewish girl born in 1934 in Paris who escaped to the french countryside during the war. She describes how her life changes when her father joins the army and is not haerd from again (he survives the war and is eventually reunited with the family), how she and her mother are forced to wear yellow stars on their coats, and how she is separated from her mother to save her own life by living under a hidden name in the countryside pretending not to be Jewish. The author met the subject’s son and it is an accessible telling of how many french Jewish children survived the war by hiding out in the countryside.
