Age
8-12
Grade
2-7
Lila Perl
Isabel's War
Hardcover
(Lizzie Skurnick Books Nov. 25, 2014)
In a stunning new novel completed just before her death in 2013, award-winning author Lila Perl introduces us to Isabel Brandt, a French-phrase-dropping twelve-year-old New Yorker who's more interested in boys and bobbing her nose than the distant war across the Pacificthe one her parents keep reminding her to care more about. Things change when Helga, the beautiful niece of her parent's best friends, comes to live with Isabel and her family. Helga is everything Isabel's notcool, blonde, and vaguely aloof. She's also a German war refugee, with a past that gives a growing Isabel something more important to think about than boys and her own looks. Set in the Bronx during World War II, Isabel's War is a beautiful evocation of New York in the 1940s and of a girl's growing awareness of the world around her.
- ISBN
- 1939601363 / 9781939601360
- Pages
- 224
- Weight
- 10.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.5 x 0.8 in.
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