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From Maine to Berlin,\nfrom suspected to suspicious,
\nand someone is watching her…<\/p>\n
From Maine to Berlin,
\nfrom suspected to suspicious,
\nand someone is watching her…<\/p>\n
Nothing that this young American teen thought she knew about her family is true – Mom and Dad aren’t her parents, glamorous Aunt Adrie is her mother… and a German spy! And what a terrible truth she discovers about the Lebensborn nursery<\/a> where she is required to volunteer.<\/p>\n Find this 2015 paperback (or 2014 hardcover) at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore.<\/a>\u00a0 Be sure to also grab the companion book Shadows on the Sea<\/em> (my no-spoiler review here<\/a>) to discover how Wendy finds herself in this perilous situation in the first place.<\/p>\n How far would you go to stand up for your beliefs? Book info<\/strong>: The Watcher \/ Joan Hiatt Harlow. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2014 (paperback, 2015).\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n My book talk<\/strong>: Kidnapped from America by her German spy ‘aunt’ and taken to Berlin, Wendy learns of her real parentage, encounters the people spying on her, and must decide which path to follow during World War II.<\/p>\n After rescuing a puppy who failed SS police dog school, Wendy walks in the park near Adrie’s house, where she and Watcher meet Barret and his seeing-eye dog – at last, someone who speaks English and doesn’t scorn her for living in America!<\/p>\n The young man’s grandfather says Wendy’s father wasn’t a German officer, as Adrie claims… Wendy becomes convinced that she must escape from Nazi Germany in this suspenseful tale which follows the events in Shadows on the Sea<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Maine to Berlin, from suspected to suspicious, and someone is watching her… Nothing that this young American teen thought she knew about her family is true – Mom and Dad aren’t her parents, glamorous Aunt Adrie is her mother… and a German spy! And what a terrible truth she discovers about the Lebensborn nursery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,19,50],"tags":[123,22,7,4,152,11,20,5,37,16,141,18,40,44,147,43,165,71,39,49,184,193,15,206,21,35,33,3,6,8,28,59],"class_list":["post-7592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-fiction","category-historical","tag-adoption","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-blindness","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-dogs","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-germany","tag-growing-up","tag-holocaust","tag-kidnapping","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-prejudice","tag-relationships","tag-religion","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-villains","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7592"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8978,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592\/revisions\/8978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n**kmm<\/p>\n
\nFrau Messner says the children at the Lebensborn nursery are orphans; Johanna says they were stolen from parents in occupied countries because they look so Aryan…
\nOh, no! Was that White Rose anti-Nazi pamphlet still in Wendy’s coat pocket when she fell terribly ill??<\/p>\n