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The Dog In The Wood (2009)

by Monika Schröder(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1590787013 (ISBN13: 9781590787014)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Front Street, Incorporated

review 1: At the end of World War 2, ten-year-old Fritz faces increasing hardship after his Nazi-sympathizing grandparents commit suicide and leave him, his mother, and a Polish farmhand to fend for themselves. The writing is solid, but not spectacular. The story is based on the author’s family history, so the narrative structure is a little thin and the characters are a little weak. Still, this slice of postwar history is not covered much, so this could fill a need. Recommended for grades 5-9.
review 2: Monika Schroder clearly tells a story that is probably unfamiliar to most American children -- that of the post-war Russian occupation of eastern Germany that eventually led to the two Germanys. Being first generation German myself I have close family friends who ... moreexperienced the horrors of this as children themselves. Schroder was inspired to tell this story based on what little she knew of her own father's experience as the child of farmers affected by the occupation. She doesn't hold back and the story is harsh, if not as harsh as of the stories she heard when she interviewed others in her father's village. An important story told well. less

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