My Top Ten Books: #4

My Top Ten Books is a series of short book reviews.

#4 on my list is written by Ed Dunlop. Escape to Liechtenstein.

This book is set in the second world war in Austria. Hans and Gretchen, the main characters, live in a small village by themselves. Their mother was killed and their father was forced to serve for the Nazis.

It starts out a peaceful day but when Gretchen sees Nazi soldiers walking towards the village she yells for Hans, “Nazi soldiers are coming! What will we do!?” Hans being a good brother said calmly back to her, “stay quiet and calm maybe they won't come here.” But they did come...

Bang Bang, “open up!” Said a Nazi soldier, “open up!” “We're coming,” Hans called, “just a moment.”

The soldiers asked if they were the only ones there and they answered truthfully saying yes. The soldiers were looking for a runaway boy and asked again if they were the only ones there. But the soldiers had to find out for themselves. They rummaged through every room turning them all upside down to no avail. They went out to the barn to search but they finally gave up. So after all that Hans and Gretchen were finally by themselves again with a huge mess to clean up and even more hatred for those Nazis!

They looked down into the village and saw all the Nazi soldiers marching through the streets finally leaving the village alone. Then Hans heard something up in the loft of the barn, “be quiet Gretchen I hear something.” A board creaked then another, someone was up in the loft! Hans and Gretchen moved over quietly to where they could see the intruder but he couldn't see them. The intruder started backing down the ladder! Will this intruder be armed and dangerous!? Or will he be friendly and kind!? Read the book to find out!

This book makes my top five because it tells the story of hate changing into sympathy While still having plenty of suspense and action. So if you love Historical Fiction look this book up and maybe give it a try!

If you do want to read it, here is the linkhttps://www.amazon.com/Escape-Liechtenstein-Young-Refugees-Book/dp/1591660130/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=JAMJKKA5NJSRVKT5WZGK

Anne Frank part 2

Continued from part 1

All the sudden they heard Nazi soldiers at the door of the Annex.  At that moment the door flung open and the Franks were caught.  

So after that they were sent to concentration camp and they were split up into groups, women on one side and men on the other, and those small groups were split up also, into girls and ladies, boys and men.  So in other words the Franks were split up for a couple of years! 

 And it's sad to say that none of the Franks survived accept for Mr. Frank, Anne's Dad.  He came home expecting a family reunion but he didn't see them because they had died :( .  Anne was only 14 or 15 when she died but she lived her life well.

                                                 THE END

Anne Frank

I love reading books in general but I really like biographies.  Recently I read the biography Who Was Anne Frank.  She was a girl that lived in Germany at the time of  WW2, and in that time Adolf Hitler was ruler. Now Anne was Jewish and Hitler hated Jews, so that was a problem for Anne.  After a while it got so bad that Jews couldn't see movies, plays, and had to be inside at a certain time at night!  They feared they would go to a concentration camp, so they finally had to go into hiding when Anne was only 13!  The hideout was called the Secret Annex, cool right?  It was not so cool if you were in it. They had to be really quiet during business hours because they were above offices, and they couldn't cook during the day, so not so cool.  A year passed by and all the sudden at the door of the Annex they heard Nazi soldiers uh-oh!


To be continued....