Almost Autumn
Scholastic Inc · Hardcover · January 3, 2017
An international award-winning novel about sorrow, chance, and first love in World War II Norway!
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- Who it’s for
- First love meets secrecy and urgent choices in occupied Norway.
- Themes
- First love, Resistance under Nazi occupation, Secrecy and uncertainty
- Genres
- Holocaust Stories for Teens, Historical YA Romance, Historical YA - Europe
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An international award-winning novel about sorrow, chance, and first love in World War II Norway! It's October 1942, in Oslo, Norway. Fifteenyear- old Ilse Stern is waiting to meet boy-nextdoor Hermann Rod for their first date. She was beginning to think he'd never ask her; she's had a crush on him for as long as she can remember. But Hermann won't be able to make it tonight.
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What Ilse doesn't know is that Hermann is secretly working in the Resistance, helping Norwegian Jews flee the country to escape the Nazis. The work is exhausting and unpredictable, full of late nights and code words and lies to Hermann's parents, to his boss... to Ilse. And as life under German occupation becomes even more difficult, particularly for Jewish families like the Sterns, the choices made become more important by the hour: To speak up or to look away? To stay or to flee? To act now or wait one more day? In this internationally acclaimed debut, Marianne Kaurin recreates the atmosphere of secrecy and uncertainty in World War II Norway in a moving story of sorrow, chance, and first love.
Love Under Pressure
First love meets secrecy and urgent choices in occupied Norway.
Come here for
- A tender thread of first love amid wartime uncertainty
- Moral choices with no easy answers
Expect
- An atmosphere shaped by secrecy, uncertainty, and danger
- Sorrow alongside chance and first love
Where it sits
| Holocaust Stories for Teens | 70% |
|---|---|
| Historical YA Romance | 55% |
| Historical YA - Europe | 22% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Historical YA - Europe
- Holocaust Stories for Teens
- YA Romance
- Authors
- Marianne Kaurin
- Publisher
- Scholastic Inc
- Published
- January 3, 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- First love · Resistance under Nazi occupation · Secrecy and uncertainty
- Reading lane
- Historical YA - Europe