Young adult Historical fiction Children 2015

The War that saved my life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Published in Spanish as La guerra que salvó mi vida

Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside.

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What it is

Strangers who become a family · it makes you cry, in a good way

What happens in it

War from the inside Found family

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Who tells it
First person
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Its characters

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Is it for you?

It's for you if…

  • you love a family people choose
  • you read for the characters
  • you don't mind a good cry

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