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The Girl Who Wouldn't Die

by Randall Platt
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It's 1939 in Poland, and Arab knows that standing up for anyone—especially her Jewish family—only paints a target on her back. So she plans to survive the Nazi occupation the way she always has: disguise herself as an Aryan boy, lead her street gang, and sell whatever she can steal.
But though Arab starts the war with the one goal of staying alive, others have different ideas for her. When a stranger asks for her help with a covert rescue mission, Arab has to make a choice. Trying to be a hero is a surefire way to get killed. But if she doesn't do it, who will?
Hard-hitting and unforgettable, The Girl Who Wouldn't Die is a story about survival, the necessity of resistance, and the hope that can be found when the world is at its darkest.

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    January 8, 2019

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      • ISBN: 9781510708105
      • File size: 1317 KB

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      • ISBN: 9781510708105
      • File size: 1316 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      April 15, 2017
      "Just who are you?...No. What are you?" These questions are at the heart of this survival story set in World War II Warsaw. Abra Goldstein, 16, thrills on defiant criminality and despises the proper expectations her "filthy-rich Jewish parents" have for her. Abra runs away and reinvents herself as "Arab" (a shortening of the dated, offensive term "street arab"), leader of a gang of young thieves. When the Nazis conquer Poland, Arab morphs into any role required of her: girl/boy, Jew/Gentile, thief/benefactor; she adds killer/savior when she sees her countrymen subjected to the Nazis' cruelty and Jews threatened with Hitler's Final Solution. She retaliates against soldiers after witnessing a massacre, then joins a risky plot to rescue Jewish children--her younger sister included--before they are transferred to camps. Narrated by Arab over the course of several months from 1939 to 1941, the tale is rough and violent. The plotting careens a bit through Arab's many ventures, but readers will champion the scrappy, unconventional protagonist when she commits to the resistance. An epilogue dated September 1946 testifies to her success. Although uneven, this is an intriguingly complex psychological study of an individual's criminal behavior, self-hate, and self-reckoning heightened by and contrasted with the horrors of war, in which the worst crimes--those against humanity--are government policy. An intriguing addition to Holocaust fiction. (Historical fiction. 12-16)

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