Waiting for the storks / Katrina Nannestad ; with illustrations by Martina Heiduczek.
Material type: TextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : ABC Books/HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 333 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780733342271Subject(s): Lebensborn e.V. (Germany) -- Juvenile fiction | Interethnic adoption -- Juvenile fiction | Identity (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Juvenile fiction | Kidnapping -- Juvenile fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Juvenile fiction | Eugenics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Poland -- Juvenile fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Juvenile fiction | Wrongful adoption -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | War fiction. | Young adult fiction. DDC classification: A823.4/eng/20221108 Summary: I don't want to remember the truck, or the night I was taken, or the family I left behind. I am not a sad Polish girl. I am a good and happy German girl. I am. I am. I am. It's the Second World War and Himmler's Lebensborn Program is in full flight when eight-year-old Zofia Ulinski is kidnapped by the Germans. She has blonde hair and blue eyes, just like the other Polish children taken from their families and robbed of their names, their language, their heritage. But when Zofia is adopted into a wealthy and loving German family, it is easier, it is safer to bury her past, deep down, so everything is forgotten.Until the Polish boy arrives.And the past comes back to haunt her.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Ages 12+.
I don't want to remember the truck, or the night I was taken, or the family I left behind. I am not a sad Polish girl. I am a good and happy German girl. I am. I am. I am. It's the Second World War and Himmler's Lebensborn Program is in full flight when eight-year-old Zofia Ulinski is kidnapped by the Germans. She has blonde hair and blue eyes, just like the other Polish children taken from their families and robbed of their names, their language, their heritage. But when Zofia is adopted into a wealthy and loving German family, it is easier, it is safer to bury her past, deep down, so everything is forgotten.Until the Polish boy arrives.And the past comes back to haunt her.
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