Kathryn Lasky! Happy birthday to you!
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| Twelve-year-old Julia knows that her physical deformity will keep her
from a normal life, but counts on the continuing friendship of her
life-long slave, Mitka, until they learn that both of their futures in
first-century Pompeii are about to change for the worse. |
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| In 1932 Berlin, thirteen-year-old Gaby Schramm witnesses the beginning
of Hitler's rise to power, as soldiers become ubiquitous, her beloved
literature teacher starts wearing a jewelled swastika pin, and the
family's dear friend, Albert Einstein, leaves the country while Gaby's
parents secretly bury his books and papers in their small yard. |
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