"Traitor" - Sandra Grey

I love me my Christian romance! I'm a little weirded out by Mormon romance...

Marie is a Mormon Allied spy in France. Rolf is a Mormon Nazi major. They cross paths, and through the guidance of the Holy Ghost, they manage to make it through the war.

I just realized how dull this book sounds. But it's really not! I was surprised by how interesting it was. (If her research was done right,) the details of how Mormons lived in Nazi Germany were fascinating. I also think her side characters bumped the plot up. How contemporaries reacted to Mormons is not often discussed in your average WWII story.

[Heads up: it's a trilogy.]

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Hadassah: one night with the king by Tommy Tenney is a WONDERFUL(!!!) novel about Esther, a religious girl placed among non-Jews. I like these books for the understanding that develops on both sides.

If you'd like to commit to a huge endeavor: The House of Winslow series by Gilbert Morris follows a family through the history of America. A highly religious family, each member must gain their own faith while living through historical eras.

Romeo and Juliet comes to mind...

"Dr. Seuss Goes to War" -Richard H. Minear

Dr. Seuss Goes to War: the World War II editorial cartoons of Theodore S. Geisel was a fascinating portrait of where Seuss began: writing editorial cartoons, propaganda, and early artwork before he wrote children's books.

What some of our favorite children's authors did during the World Wars.

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The Journey that Saved Curious George: the true wartime escape of Margret and H.A. Rey by Louise Borden.

Walt Disney: the man behind the magic by Tamra Orr.

Winnie: the true story of the bear that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh by Sally Walker follows Winnie's journey during World War I.

The "Who Was...?" series for children is awesome, reads like a novel, has all the details. I'd like to read Who was J.R.R. Tolkien? by Pam Pollack

"Maus I: A Survivor's Story" -Art Spiegelman

This is a well-known graphic novel which tells the story of the holocaust through caricatures: mice represent the Jews and cats representg the Nazis. What I didn't realize was there were other animals: pigs represent the Poles. It's a dark graphic novel, not a comic book. I read the section My Father Bleeds History.

I had mixed feelings while reading this book. The main character is called by his son "the stereotypical miserly Jew" and he is not a nice nor rational man. However, the goal of the story is to show what the Jews lived through. The reader makes this journey with the son, you learn as he learns. Several emotions: hate, disgust, frustration, pity, went through my mind. I have not finished the series so I don't know what the final "lesson" is.

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I don't read a lot of graphic novels that aren't about superheroes or graphic renditions of literature (Yay Shakespeare!) but I did read V for Vendetta which was a dark, political commentary on a fascist government.