TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Vinck,Christopher
TI  - Ashes
SN  - 9798885786973
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Waterville, Maine
PB  - Thorndike Press
KW  - Female friendship
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Teenage girls
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Jews
KW  - Belgium
KW  - History
KW  - German occupation, 1940-1945
KW  - Large type books
KW  - Christian fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - War fiction
N2  - Belgium, July 1939. Simone Lyon is the daughter of Belgium national hero Major General Joseph Lyon. Her best friend Hava Daniels is the daughter of a devout Jewish family. Despite growing up in different worlds, they are inseparable. But when, in the spring of 1940, Nazi planes and tanks begin bombing Brussels, Hava and Simone find themselves caught in the advancing onslaught and are forced to flee. The two teenage girls will see their innocence fall against the ugly backdrop of a war dictating that theirs was a friendship that should never have been
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