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Event Type: Book Discussion Age Group(s): Adults Date: 3/7/2017 Start Time: 10:00 AM End Time: 11:30 AM Description: The March title is The German Girl by Armand Correa. Copies of the book will be available at the El Mirage Library Customer Service desk and online electronically through Overdrive on the Library’s homepage.
Library: El Mirage Branch Library location Other Information: This powerful, meticulously researched novel is a moving tale of one girl's struggle against a world in turmoil. In 1930s Berlin, choked by the tightening of Hitler's fist, the Klein family is gradually losing everything that is precious to them. Their fifteen-year-old daughter, Rosa, slips out of Germany on a Kindertransport train to begin a new life in England. Charged with the task of securing a safe passage for her family, she vows that she will not rest until they are safe. But as war breaks out and she loses contact with her parents, Rosa finds herself wondering if they are so.
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