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Dark Hours

Gudrun Pausewang

2006208 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2006
first published
  • 2006Annick Press · 208 pages · ENGISBN 9781554510429

A grandmother tells her granddaughter the story of how she spent her sixteenth birthday trapped in a bathroom with her younger siblings after an air-raid attack on Germany during the end of World War II.

How it feels

AtmosphereBleak

How it reads

Character focusSmall ensemble

Worth knowing

ViolenceFrequent
Written forMiddle grade

When and where

ThemesWar

Content notes

  • Warmoderateunreviewed

Quotesnone available

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