Monday, 6 June 2011

Ashes

by Kathryn Lasky
Published by Puffin Books, 2010, New York

Kathryn Lasky is another master storyteller!  Thirteen-year-old Gabby is living in Berlin in 1932.  What does she think and how does she feel about the changing political environment she is growing up in?  She is probably more "aware" and more "thoughtful" than most thirteen-year-olds, but this is understandable when you realise that her father is a Professor of Astronomy and the family's close friends include Albert Einstein.

Highly recommended for all readers