{"id":11809,"date":"2021-04-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11809"},"modified":"2021-04-03T09:13:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T14:13:26","slug":"d-for-daring-doubts-in-wwii-i-am-defiance-by-jenni-l-walsh-mg-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11809","title":{"rendered":"D for daring & doubts in WWII: I AM DEFIANCE, by Jenni L. Walsh (MG book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Purity of Aryan blood!
Devotion to the Fuhrer!
Questions not allowed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brigitte tries to act just like the other girls in her Hitler Youth JM group<\/a>, but the 12 year old worries that a leader may discover big sister Angelika’s disability or Papa’s empathetic heart and take them away to the camps that no one talks about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A pamphlet with unusual words like ‘freedom’ and ‘resistance’ appears in apartment mailboxes, and her botany professor Papa silently takes it away. Then comes another, and Brigitte’s JM leaders denounce the White Rose group<\/a> for trying to undermine the Nazi government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the third pamphlet arrives, and Brigitte agrees with Papa and Angelika that it carries more truth than the official state radio and newspapers. They’ll pretend to be ‘good Germans’ for now\u2026until they can leave Munich safely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can Angelika hide her limp well enough to continue at university?
Can Brigitte hide her new knowledge from JM friends and leaders?
Is there any chance that the Schmidt family gets out of this war intact?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Allied bombers close in on Munich, the secret trapdoor to the cellar may be what saves them, if their neighbors don’t report them first!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is your defiance against the wrongs you see?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: I Am Defiance: a Novel of World War II \/ Jenni L. Walsh. Scholastic Press, 2021. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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