It is said that "no one writes letters anymore." Not so with the authors Mary Ann Shaffer and her niece Annie Barrows. In a series of letters the cast of characters are introduced to us in such a way that they feel like new friends. The setting is on an island called Guernsey between England and France (so close to France that cars on their highway can be seen on a clear day). The time is when I was ten years old and the World War II was raging. The Nazis' had occupied this small British Isle. While trying to survive this five-year-long occupation these people read many books, cared for and about each other and become ingenious in their survival. As I read this series of letters I was definitely changed, feeling more intimately involved and wishing to be much more clever and caring myself.
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