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This is a really sad story. So many reviewers comment that they aren't sure who this is aimed at, me neither. It's really short so I can't imagine this being aimed at older children/teens but it is very disturbing and has a bleak ending. The illustrations are very good and detailed, this made the images have a great impact, the distressed faces of the children and the sneering faces of the Nazis were hard to look at. If this had been a longer book with some information in the end pages it could have worked better as a read for older children/teens, it could have worked better as a graphic novel perhaps. The title seems to refer to a movement of German people who fought against what was happening, I would have appreciated some information about them at the end.I liked the idea of seeing the war through the eyes of a young German girl, it was good to see a story focusing on one of the many brave Germans who tried to help. I thought it was disappointing that the story made it look so easy for a young girl to follow a Nazi van and visit each day to take food and pass it to the people there. For this part you had to completely suspend belief that nobody noticed, nobody was watching and she never got caught. This story seemed too much for small readers and not enough information for older ones.
