World War 2 middle grade fiction to look for
Summer vacation is so awesome. House projects. Lunches with friends. No alarm clock. AND uninterrupted time to read! I'm finally dusting off the TBR pile and wow, are there some great ones in here. I love historical fiction and this new one is terrific. It's called The Taste of Rain by Monique Polak. It's about a group of girls who are Girl Guides (like American Girl Scouts). The story starts and you might start thinking this is just an ordinary group of girls in a boarding school somewhere with their relentlessly cheerful teacher. Except they aren't just anywhere, they are in Weishen which was a prison camp in Japan during World War 2. The kids are being held there because their boarding school was taken over by the Japanese as headquarters. The kids' parents were missionaries or had other jobs and after 2 1/2 years, they don't know where their parents are or whether they'll ever see them again. Their teacher, ...