I got this book from the Citizens for the Charles County Public Library, Inc. (C4CCPL) April Used-Book Bazaar. On the last day of the sale, Saturday 25 April, 2009 they had a sale where you could take home all of the books that you could pack into a paper bag for $1 per bag.

I managed to bring home 11 bags and one of those bags included this book. This book may be added to my already out of control pile of books that I want to read one day or I might just release it.

From the back cover:

Budapest, Hungary:
World War II

Christine is only fifteen, and she’s caught in the middle of a war-torn city. Huddled in the cold, dark cellar of their bombed-out apartment building, Christine and her family listen in fear as the battle rages over their heads. They must get out of the city – but where will they go and how will they escape? Christine is learning some hard lessons about life – and death – as she struggles to stay alive amidst the horrors of war.

This book is hard to read because of the subject matter. I would have thought it to be like The Diary of Anne Frank but it was not at all. It was poorly written and hard to understand without background knowledge of that part of the world and WWII. The book seemed gory and although I understand telling about the horrors of war it was a little too much for me.

I cannot recommend this book and I would not have even finished it if it had not been so short. I can only hope that it will find the right person and that someone will come here and journal it with comments good or bad.

This book was read for the 2009 Pages Read Challenge from the release challenge forum.

My goal is 35,000 pages and this book has a total of 126 pages that I am counting for this challenge. I have a total of 87 books read this year with 20430 pages read for the year and that is 58.371% of my 2009 goal.

This book was released for the 2009 You’re Such An Animal Challenge from the Release Challenges forum.

The goal of this challenge is to release books with the name of an animal in the title. Can you find the animal in the title of this book? Don’t forget to look for embedded words!

This is release #224 for this challenge.

This book was released for the 2009 Never Judge A Book By Its Cover Challenge from the release challenge forum.

This is week #39
The theme for this week is to find books that have the word “a”, “an” or “and” in the title.

This is release #31 for this week and release #240 total for the year.

This book is being counted for the 2009 Track Your Challenge Releases from the release challenge forum. This book is being released for one or more other challenges.

This is release #1113 for the year that qualifies for this challenge.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:


The Library of Congress Celebrates the Joy of Reading


The 2009 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, will be held on Saturday, September 26, 2009, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between 7th and 14th streets from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The festival is free and open to the public.

I attended this event with a yellow wagon full of books and was able to give them all away to people that wanted them. A success in my book!


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