SAVING RAFAEL
published by Andersen Press
There was a vehicle pulling up outside. I heard the booted feet running up the stairs, then the hammering on the apartment door and the shouting. 'Open up! Gestapo!'
You're fifteen years old. You're in love. Only this is Nazi-ruled Berlin and he's a Jew, so it's against the law to love him. And it's 1943 and they're taking the last Jews away from Berlin. To the gas chambers.
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'Powerful and compelling.. a gripping read.' The School Librarian SAVING RAFAEL IS NOMINATED FOR THE 2010 CARNEGIE MEDAL
Welcome to my website, where you can read about me, my German family background, and my books, as well as about my source material for the novels set in Nazi Germany, Last Train from Kummersdorf, and Saving Rafael - and school visits. I hope you enjoy it, or find it useful, since clearly stuff about Nazi Germany isn't what you call enjoyable. But even in that dark area of human history, there are heartening stories, and those are the ones I've written about in my last two novels for young adults. I am blogging with a group of other authors nowadays, rather than keeping up a regular private blog. It is published at http://awfullybigblogadventure.blogspot.com/ where you can also see archived blogs from me, and from many other authors. A completely different kind of writing by me: go to http://www.foodethicscouncil.org/files/Magazine_4%283%29_4-7.pdf where you will find an introduction to a special publication of the Food and Ethics Council about food waste, co-authored by me and Himself. It was a new thing to collaborate like this, but it went really well, so we might do it again.
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