They Went Left
They Went Left

They Went Left

Written by Monica Hesse
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13 - 17
Reading age
400
Page count
213
Words per page
HL730L
Lexile measure
Apr 6, 2021
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In the rubble of a broken continent, a girl must solve a mystery whose answers could rebuild her family–or break her completely, in this New York Times bestselling, critically acclaimed tour de force historical novel from Monica Hesse, author of Girl in the Blue Coat. Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp say the war is over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal, her mind feels broken. And her life is completely shattered: Three years ago, she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else–her parents, her grandmother, radiant Aunt Maja–they went left. Zofia’s last words to her brother were a promise: Abek to Zofia, A to Z. When I find you again, we will fill our alphabet. Now her journey to fulfill that vow takes her through Poland and Germany, into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past: Miriam, desperately searching for the twin she was separated from after they survived medical experimentation. Breine, a former heiress, who now longs only for a simple wedding with her new fiancé. And Josef, who guards his past behind a wall of secrets, and is beautiful and strange and magnetic all at once. But the deeper Zofia digs, the more impossible her search seems. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing?

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780316490597
    Publication Date
    April 6, 2021
    Publisher
    Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
    Original Publication Date
    April 7, 2020
    Page Count
    400
    Words Per Page
    213
    Audience
    Young Adult
    Reading Age
    13 - 17 years
    Lexile® Level
    HL730L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~Q
    ATOS® Book Level
    5.1
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    13
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    508897
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    UG

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