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Blood for Blood
A sequel to last year’s Wolf by Wolf, an alternate history in which Germany and Japan were the victors of World War II, shifts among various perspectives but focuses primarily on Yael, Luka Lowe, and Felix Wolf in the aftermath of Yael’s failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler. Yael, Luka, and Felix make a dramatic escape from the Germans and are moving across Eastern Europe. Theirs is an uneasy alliance, shadowed by potential treachery. Like the prior volume, this one moves back and forth in time, illuminating moments from the past in each of their lives that shaped their outlook and current motivation. For Felix, that motivation is doing whatever necessary to protect his family. For Luka, somewhat to his surprise, it’s doing whatever is necessary to prove his allegiance to this stranger, Yael, who has been posing as his former lover, Adele Wolf. And for Yael, haunted by her childhood in a Nazi concentration camp from which she escaped, it’s doing whatever is necessary to salvage her mission and save friends in the Resistance who are in danger because of its failure. Tense and terrifically plotted, fans of the first book will be more than satisfied by this conclusion. ©2016 Cooperative Children's Book Center
CCBC Age Recommendation: Age 13 and older
Age Range:
Grades 6-8 (Ages 11-13)
Grades 9-12 (Age 14 and older)
Format:
Novel
Subjects:
20th Century
Action/Adventure
Activism and Resistance
Alternate Histories
Holocaust
Jewish People
Oppression
Speculative Fiction
Spies and Intrigue
Survival
Diversity subject:
Jewish
Publisher:
Little, Brown
Publish Year: 2016
Pages: 481
ISBN: 9780316405157
CCBC Location: Fiction, Graudin