It’s the February episode of Adventures With Words Young Adult Edition, and this month Kate talks to Vanessa Curtis about her new novel The Earth Is Singing, telling the story of the Jews of Riga during World War Two. Continue reading “Podcast: The Earth Is Singing and YA War Novels”
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Review: The Earth Is Singing by Vanessa Curtis
My name is Hanna Michelson. I am fifteen. I am Latvian.
I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing – taken by the Russians.
I’m training to be a dancer. But none of that matters now.
Because the Nazis have arrived, and I am a Jew. And as far as they are concerned, that is all that matters.
This is my story. Continue reading “Review: The Earth Is Singing by Vanessa Curtis”