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My next move on #bookishmonopoly led me to our library, which was perfect because they organised a Blind Book Date for Valentine's day 💖

I had to choose between two books and ended up with The War That Saved My Life. Not a book I had chosen without this.

Now I need your help, Littens. I want to find out what book the other one would've been. The card said: Words are worth their weight in silver in this historical fantasy book. The industrial⬇️

“I have never been loved before, but I had learned how to live without it.”

This would be a great book to teach students about the experience children have being evacuated during world war 2

this heartbreaking story is a wonderful read about a girl with clingy who is evacuated from her home in london and faces her past challenges of abuse

“Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution, will bring us victory.“

This book would be great to incorporate into your classroom in ELA and social studies. It teaches children about WWII while giving them a child character to relate to. It transports children to what times were like during the war while also having an underlying meaning/lesson. This book is written from Ada's point of view so as the reader we get a first-hand account of her feelings, which students can learn from and dissect as well.

The War that Saved My Life was published in 2015. This historical fiction takes place in England during WWII. It follows a young girl named Ada as she sneaks out to seek refuge with her brother to escape the war. During this story, the reader learns how Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, read, and learn about German spies. Being crippled Ada's mother is ashamed of her, and Ada is not ready to face her mother after the war is over.

This is a great story to teach the ideas of perseverance through a common theme of overcoming struggle

“I was not broken. I was not ugly. I was not worthless. I was something else entirely.”

This story is set during WWII follows Ada who goes on a journey to escape London and go countryside where she learns to trust, love, and overcome her abusive past.

“You are not worthless. You are not broken. You are whole and worthy of love”

I wouldn‘t use this book in my classroom because there‘s some topics and themes that are discussed that are a bit too heavy for a school environment

This was a really heavy book but well written. I appreciated the message and how it was portrayed

“Maybe I could do it. Maybe I could be free.“

The themes are personal growth, overcoming adversity, and the power of love and kindness in transforming lives. It teaches readers that everyone, no matter their background or physical challenges, deserves respect and the opportunity to shape their own future.

This is an inspiring story about Ada, a young girl born with a clubfoot, who escapes her abusive mother during World War II. Along with her brother Jamie, she is evacuated to the English countryside where she finds freedom, learns to trust others, and discovers her own strength.

This will be one of my top books of the year. War stories aren‘t my favorite, nor is historical fiction. I also don‘t like books where kids are hurt. But this one had such an immense wait list on my Libby app that when it finally came up after about 3 years, I knew I had to listen to it as I might not get another chance! The audio was amazing. It was sad in some ways but very lovely, hopeful and even humourous. Fantastic narration. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Set in WWII England, this middle grade novel details Ada‘s escape from her abusive mother to join her brother Jamie as he is evacuated to the Kent countryside. She grapples with (forced) gratitude toward her new caretaker Susan, low self-esteem, and the knowledge that her mother does not love her, for she could have given Ada surgery to fix her clubfoot as a child and did not.

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It was awesome!

Listening to this one...

Great book for suspense, and has a great story.

I found this book delightful. It's a little over-the-top at times, but only enough to be improbable, not impossible. And really, bombings and air raids and evacuations of children and really most of WWII are over-the-top but completely factual, so there you are. The novel feels like an honest depiction of several types of trauma and cultural biases from a child's perspective.

March was a good reading month. I ended up going pretty much all in on the middle grade reading so that I didn‘t finish some other things in the plans. Although I‘m in the middle of some, I finished no books from the 1001 list and got behind on Ulysses, but I did mark 7 books off the owned TBR list.

Favorites this month were The War That Saved My Life & The Lions of Little Rock.

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This book was incredible, and Kimberly Brubaker Bradley is becoming a must read author for me. It‘s a story of a brother and sister evacuated from London to the countryside in the early days of WWII, but it‘s also a story of found family. Ada and Jamie learn there‘s much more to life than the limited and abusive home life they left behind.

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This juvenile book, set during WW2, was so interesting to read. I'll definitely get the second book at my library. While I got tired of reading WW2-related books (overload), this book focused more on life in war-stricken England, with two kids from London being entrusted to a single older woman in the countryside. The boy and the girl were from a poor and abusive household, but despite the war, we'll see them blossom in their new environment.

READ THIS BOOK!

Best book🌟

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The war that saved my life was a great book I couldn't stop reading it, it was a fantastic story. My favorite character was definitely the little pony. There where no flaws and I loved it.

Ada and James escape their horrible Mam when all of the kids in London were sent elsewhere to keep them safe from the impending war. They are forced to live with Susan, and while it is a bumpy ride, they all grow in different ways. This is a wonderfully written juvenile book.

10 word book review: This book is my favorite read of 2020 so far!

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I‘m still on a sentimental #middlegrade kick, apparently, and this book is a DOOZY. Major tearjerker and content warning for child abuse, although portrayed sensitively for its audience and probably harder to read as an adult. Still, there‘s something almost comforting about reading about the London Blitz and evacuation of children in WWII— maybe because it was a disaster when everyone came together to get through tough times as best they could.