Books with title Puppet

A heartbreaking episode in history, explained through the story of a young servant girl in the late 1800s.The year is 1882. A young servant girl named Esther disappears from a small Hungarian village. Several Jewish men from the village of Tisza Eszvar face the ‘blood libel’ — the centuries-old calumny that Jews murder Christian children for their blood. A fourteen-year-old Jewish boy named Morris Scharf becomes the star witness of corrupt authorities who coerce him into testifying against his fellow Jews, including his own father, at the trial. This powerful fictionalized account of one of the last blood libel trial in Europe is told through the eyes of Julie, a friend of the murdered Esther, and a servant at the jail where Morris is imprisoned. Julie is no stranger to suffering herself. An abused child, when her mother dies her alcoholic father separates her from her beloved baby sister. Julie and Morris, bound by the tragedy of the times, become unlikely allies. Although Puppet is a novel, it is based upon a real court case that took place in Hungary in 1883. In Hungary today, the name Morris Scharf has become synonymous with “traitor.”Once again, Eva Wiseman illuminates a heartbreaking episode in history for young readers.

Fifteen-year-old Jake wakes up completely trapped inside his own body, unable to move or speak. Just as panic over his sudden paralysis consumes him, his body begins to move and speak for him, out of his control. Jake soon realizes that someone else is now in control, bending and shaping him to some unknown will. Powerless, watching from inside his mental prison, the possibilities race through Jake's mind as his own body carries on living and speaking to his friends and family as if nothing had ever changed. As his body begins to do progressively weirder and weirder things, Jake knows he has to fight back, if only he can figure out how.Will someone ever notice that Jake isn't right, and help him?More importantly, can Jake figure out how to stop whoever is doing this before he ends up hurt, or worse?

A heartbreaking episode in history, explained through the story of a young servant girl in the late 1800s.The year is 1882. A young servant girl named Esther disappears from a small Hungarian village. Several Jewish men from the village of Tisza Eszvar face the ‘blood libel’ — the centuries-old calumny that Jews murder Christian children for their blood. A fourteen-year-old Jewish boy named Morris Scharf becomes the star witness of corrupt authorities who coerce him into testifying against his fellow Jews, including his own father, at the trial. This powerful fictionalized account of one of the last blood libel trial in Europe is told through the eyes of Julie, a friend of the murdered Esther, and a servant at the jail where Morris is imprisoned. Julie is no stranger to suffering herself. An abused child, when her mother dies her alcoholic father separates her from her beloved baby sister. Julie and Morris, bound by the tragedy of the times, become unlikely allies. Although Puppet is a novel, it is based upon a real court case that took place in Hungary in 1883. In Hungary today, the name Morris Scharf has become synonymous with “traitor.”Once again, Eva Wiseman illuminates a heartbreaking episode in history for young readers.

A heartbreaking episode in history, explained through the story of a young servant girl in the late 1800s.The year is 1882. A young servant girl named Esther disappears from a small Hungarian village. Several Jewish men from the village of Tisza Eszvar face the ‘blood libel’ — the centuries-old calumny that Jews murder Christian children for their blood. A fourteen-year-old Jewish boy named Morris Scharf becomes the star witness of corrupt authorities who coerce him into testifying against his fellow Jews, including his own father, at the trial. This powerful fictionalized account of one of the last blood libel trial in Europe is told through the eyes of Julie, a friend of the murdered Esther, and a servant at the jail where Morris is imprisoned. Julie is no stranger to suffering herself. An abused child, when her mother dies her alcoholic father separates her from her beloved baby sister. Julie and Morris, bound by the tragedy of the times, become unlikely allies. Although Puppet is a novel, it is based upon a real court case that took place in Hungary in 1883. In Hungary today, the name Morris Scharf has become synonymous with “traitor.”Once again, Eva Wiseman illuminates a heartbreaking episode in history for young readers.