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Dark Hours by Gudrun Pausewang

This book is about a grandmother - whose name is Gisel - who tells a story to her sixteen year old granddaughter, Stefanie, about her life during World War II. This book is extremely touching and I can feel and imagine what's going on during that time in the grandmother's story. I highly recommend this book to anyone, for this is one of the best historical fiction books I've read. And the author actually lived through that time, so that helps make the story more believable. - Reviewed by a TCK-TAB Member *****Stars

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The Red Necklace: A Story of the French Revolution by Sally Gardner

Yann Margoza has lived his past fourteen years under the tutelage of magicians and Gypsies, honing his ability to throw his voice, to read the thoughts of men and women, and to peer into the future. But when Yann, the master magician Topolain and Yann's protector Têtu are invited to perform their magic show at the home of the Marquis de Villeduval, Yann has a terrible sense of something awful on the horizon - are the trio of magicians' lives at risk or is Yann really sensing the turmoil of his country, soon to be thrown into a bloody, violent Revolution?
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Revolution is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine

"Each day, my list of questions grew. But I had no one to ask. Father no longer told me, 'Smart children always ask questions.' Instead, now he said, 'Children don't have to know everything.'" (Chang Compestine, 2007, p. 76).
Ling lives in Wuhan, China at a time when asking questions, wearing her hair long, conversing in English, or having friends that live in America are all considered suspect. She lives at the time of the Cultural Revolution in China, where enemies of the state are rooted out, imprisoned, sent to hard-labor camps, and re-educated in the ways of the common people - the true revolutionaries. As the revolutionary fervor begins to hit closer to home, when her father is taken away, and her family friends begin turning against her "bourgeouis" ways, Ling begins to dream of a different life - with family, bright-colored fabrics, and a past innocence that has since escaped her.

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