Orphan Monster Spy

I really don't like WW2 books as a rule. Too sad, too terrible, too sad. This one was a different version so I decided to try. Sarah has lost everything in trying to escape Germany. Her actress mother has spent her whole life teaching Sarah to be someone else. When her mother dies, Sarah has to use every lesson she was taught to survive being a Jew in the times of the Holocaust. She meets an American spy who takes her in after she saves him from being arrested. Sarah is given the chance to go undercover at a German girls' school to try and make friends with a scientists daughter. The scientist may have created an atom bomb, and Sarah needs to get onto the estate and survey the situation. This takes all her acting skills as she tries to fit in with the tall, blonde master race of mean girls. She lives in constant fear of being caught and knows the consequences if she is. It tests her very soul to try and fit in with these girls but knows the future of Germany may be in her hands. This book was a great read. I especially liked the appendix about the actual teenagers who were sent behind enemy lines as spy. I also liked a sort of happy ending to a book about this awful topic. This is a series so Sarah's spy games continue on. Happy reading my friends!