The Silent Unseen
A Novel of World War II
Square Fish · Print & ebook · September 12, 2023
A mesmerizing historical novel of suspense and intrigue about a teenage girl who risks everything to save her missing brother.
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- Who it’s for
- A teenager’s search for her missing brother unfolds amid wartime danger, uneasy alliances, and tangled loyalties.
- Genres
- War & Military YA, Historical YA Romance, Holocaust Stories for Teens
- Published
- Square Fish, September 12, 2023
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A mesmerizing historical novel of suspense and intrigue about a teenage girl who risks everything to save her missing brother. Poland, July 1944. Sixteen-year-old Maria is making her way home after years of forced labor in Nazi Germany, only to find her village destroyed and her parents killed in a war between the Polish Resistance and Ukrainian nationalists. To Maria’s shock, the local Resistance unit is commanded by her older brother, Tomek—who she thought was dead.
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He is now a “Silent Unseen,” a special-operations agent with an audacious plan to resist a new and even more dangerous enemy sweeping in from the East. When Tomek disappears, Maria is determined to find him, but the only person who might be able to help is a young Ukrainian prisoner and the last person Maria trusts—even as she feels a growing connection to him that she can’t resist. Tightly woven, relentlessly intense, The Silent Unseen depicts an explosive entanglement of loyalty, lies, and love during wartime, from Amanda McCrina, the acclaimed author of Traitor, a debut hailed by Elizabeth Wein as “Alive with detail and vivid with insight . . . a piercing and bittersweet story.”
Tense Loyalties
A teenager’s search for her missing brother unfolds amid wartime danger, uneasy alliances, and tangled loyalties.
Come here for
- Wartime suspense shaped by loyalty, mistrust, and a risky search
- A tense historical story with a thread of hard-won connection
Expect
- Intense stakes in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1944
- A fraught bond between a girl and the prisoner she distrusts
Where it sits
| Holocaust Stories for Teens | 52% |
|---|---|
| War & Military YA | 45% |
| Historical YA Romance | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Holocaust Stories for Teens
- War & Military YA
- Thrillers & Suspense
- Authors
- Amanda McCrina
- Publisher
- Square Fish
- Published
- September 12, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Holocaust Stories for Teens