Thanks to all those who entered last week’s giveaway, and for your kind and generous words about my writing, my books, or reading in general. I’ll do another giveaway in the next week or two, but this week’s winner is:
*** Cheryl Josie ***
This is Quote #2 from RESISTANCE. This is Chaya speaking. The younger generations were the first to accept the reality of the Nazi plans, and most of those who chose to resist were in their teens and twenties.
It was different this time. The German plan was not to divide us from the population. It was to eliminate us from the population. To exterminate us.
The ghettos played a key role in their plans, suspending my people in a halfway point to everything. Half-starved, treated as much like animals as humans. Existing halfway between hope and despair.
Halfway between life and death. The one became the other in the ghettos.
And I was doing everything I could to stop it.
It began with smuggling. Iโd become creative about how I brought things in: weapons baked into loaves of bread; fake identification papers sewn into the linings of my coat; or, occasionally, the smuggled object might make my bust appear larger than it really was. Whatever else I was secretly carrying, I always brought information to the residents of these sealed ghettos about what was happening elsewhere, and then learned everything I could to warn the next ghetto.
But that was only the beginning. My mission today was bolder than usual, and I was nervous.
RESISTANCE will be released on August 28, 2018. If you want to pre-order a copy now, please buy at your local indie bookstore first, or online.
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Incredibly excited! Looking forward to reading this next work of yours.
Thank you, Ozzie.
Can’t wait!!:)
Oh, I canโt wait for Resistance!!! Every quote you give us just makes me more excited!!!๐
Hi! I really enjoy your books and can Relate to the character very much. Me and my friends often go to the library just to read your books! With much excitement, we are doing a little countdown for your books.
I love how detailed the list of her previous smuggling adventures is! Did you take inspiration from real life ways of smuggling during this time period?
Absolutely – all of those were actual ways the couriers worked to smuggle things into the ghettos.
Loving the previews. Thanks for sharing and for the excellent contests. Looking forward to late August, they timed your release perfectly for those of us with a September school start. We get to read it in time to book talk it in the first week (or read it with our classes).
Thank you, Aaron! I bet it will be available even a little earlier though Scholastic book clubs. Just sayin’
Thanks! I will have to check them out in a month or so. No flyers out right now. I will do that for sure.
Ohh I can’t wait!!
Iโm so excited! I canโt wait for summer to end๐
Haha – no one ever says that! ๐
This book is aw….some๐๐๐
Thank you!