The 16-year-old is taken in by the leaders of Akiva, a fledgling Jewish resistance group that offers her the opportunity to become a courier, using her fair coloring to pass for Polish and sneak into ghettos to smuggle in supplies and information. 12-16)Ī Jewish girl joins up with Polish resistance groups to fight for her people against the evils of the Holocaust.Ĭhaya Lindner is forcibly separated from her family when they are consigned to the Jewish ghetto in Krakow. Worst, the philosophical underpinnings are muddled and inadequately developed e.g., Tempe spends most of the book learning that compromise is morally suspect but Mary's mentor-brother concludes the story by explaining that it is a ``necessary commodity.'' Despite the exemplary documentation, second rate. The language is accessible but often clumsy, an uncomfortable blend of period phrases (``must needs'') and conspicuous anachronisms. The major characters are inconsistently drawn: Tempe's irascibility and coldness are rationally explained, but sit oddly with her compassion for the hungry crowding her doorstep Mary is a pastiche of actions contrived to make her a convenient observer. Unfortunately the novel itself, though crammed with authentic detail, is much less satisfactory. Most significantly, 14-year-old Mary, Tempe's cousin, has been imported to provide a young narrator since Tempe herself was 22 at the time of the incident. Best here are the author's background notes, scrupulously distinguishing fact from fiction: with minor exceptions, all the characters are historical, but some of their histories have been changed. hid her horse in her house in order to prevent his being commandeered by mutinous Revolutionary soldiers.

Written to order for the ``Great Episodes'' series, a novelization of a legend with as little authenticity as Washington and the cherry tree: how a young woman near Morristown, N.J.

A ride into morning by ann rinaldi