Germany on the cusp of World War II. Hitler has risen to power, and the
Jews are being taken away from their homes in the middle of the night,
forced to wear yellow stars, their businesses smashed, their lives in
ruins. In the middle of all this is Lilli Frankfurter, a half-Jewish
girl on the cusp of adolescence, her life and family thrust into the
midst of a danger she has only begun to understand.
In the stunning sequel to Isabel's War, Lila Perl, who completed this
book just months before her death, brings wartime Germany, England, and
America to life through Lilli's eyes. From Kristallnacht to hiding in
her grandparents' attic to the Kindertransports that take her to an
isolated farm in the English countryside, separated from her family,
Lilli must repeatedly hide her identity in order to stay alive. In her
final novel, Perl brilliantly evokes Lilli's desperate journey to
America--as well as her brave quest back to Europe to find out if
anything is left of her family.
Lila Perl published over sixty volumes of fiction and nonfiction for
young readers during her long and distinguished career. In addition to
the beloved Fat Glenda series, Perl twice received American Library
Association Notable awards for nonfiction and was a recipient of the
Sidney Taylor Award for Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story. Her
penultimate novel, Isabel's War, was named a 2015 Sydney Taylor Honor
Award winner in the Teen Readers Category, and was well reviewed in the
Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Publishers Weekly, School
Library Journal, and Kirkus, among other places. She died in 2013 at
the age of ninety-two.
