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When the World Was Ours

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When the World Was Ours

By: Liz Kessler
Narrated by: Tom Lawrence, Willow Nash
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From the New York Times best-selling author of the Emily Windsnap series, Liz Kessler, comes a “brutally honest and totally believable” (Booklist, starred review) story of three young friends whose fates are intertwined during the devastation of the Holocaust - based on a true story.

Three friends. One memory.
Vienna. 1936.

Three young friends - Leo, Elsa, and Max - spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that they will soon be cruelly ripped apart from one another. With their lives taking them across Europe - to Germany, England, Prague, and Poland - will they ever find their way back to one another? Will they want to?

Inspired by a true story, When the World Was Ours is an extraordinary novel that is as powerful as it is heartbreaking and that shows how the bonds of love, family, and friendship allow glimmers of hope to flourish, even in the most hopeless of times.

©2021 Liz Kessler. Originally published in Great Britain in 2021 by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd. All rights reserved. (P)2021 Simon & Schuster UK. All rights reserved.
Difficult Situations Fiction Friendship Historical Fiction Multicultural Young Adult
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Using this book for a one school one book read! I can’t wait to get feedback from our middle schoolers

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Great writing

Such a heartbreaking story. Interwoven with history. Everyone should read or listen to this book. so very much to ponder. I will read more from this author. The narrations were awesome.

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Good Read

This was for my local book club. My 12 year old daughter and her friend are reading this also. I really enjoyed the story showing the many sides of the youth from Vienna in their different situations. Beautifully narrated on audio.

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Amazing

I love the plot of this story and love all the characters parts it’s a very interesting book that you wouldn’t want to put down. The end is very sad and made me cry. But for a historical fiction book it’s amazing.

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The continuous search for hope

A real accounting of that horrible time. The author captures you from the very beginning and tells the journey of three friends so well, you can imagine clearly. Difficult as you can imagine and heartbreaking from so many perspectives.

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I was blown away with this book it was a butifull story

Amazing all abt justice and freedom of respect and a wonderful story well done I found it amothanal but thins had happened before in life

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