The girl with no name
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Speaking no English and carrying a precious photograph of the family she left behind in Germany crammed into her small suitcase thirteen-year-old Lisa escapes from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport and arrives in England in August 1939. After being adopted, her new home and life are blown apart during the Blitz. Waking up in the hospital with no memory, authorities give her a new name and dispatch her to a children's home.
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I started this book on vacation and the characters were so engaging I barely noticed Flight delays and turbulence.
It is a coming of age story set mostly in Britain during WW2. The main character is a young girl who is forced to leave home to escape the Nazis and adjust to life without her family in a place where she knows no one and doesn't speak the language. It's the plight of many children, even today and the author tells it with a lot of insight and compassion.
