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Based on the true story of two World War II heroines who risked everything to save Jewish children from the Gestapo by hiding them throughout Belgium. Belgium, 1942. Young schoolteacher Andr�e Geulen secretly defies the Nazis in Belgium, who are forcing Jews to wear a yellow Star of David. Andr�e is not Jewish, but she feels a maternal connection to her students, who are living in constant fear, and decides to take action. No child should have to suffer under such persecution. But what can one woman do against an entire army? Ida Sterno is a Jewish woman who works with the Committee for the Defense of Jews in Belgium, a clandestine resistance group tasked with hiding children from the Gestapo. She wants to recruit Andr�e because her Aryan appearance can provide crucial security measures for their efforts. Andr�e agrees to join and begins work immediately by adopting a code name: Claude Fournier. Together, Andr�e and Ida, and their undercover operatives, work around the clock to move Jewish children from their families and smuggle them to safety through the secret channels established by the resistance. As each child is hidden, Andr�e commits to memory their true name and history. Someday, she vows, she will help reunite as many of these families as she can. But with the Gestapo closing in and the traitorous Fat Jacques who has turned from ally to enemy and is threatening to identify and expose any Jew he meets, Andr�e and Ida must work even harder against increasingly impossible odds to save as many children as possible and keep them safely hidden--even if it might cost them their own lives.

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"""I was one of the hidden children saved by the Belgian resistance. Andrée Geulen and Ida Sterno are Rebecca Connolly's heroes, but they were also my saving team who risked everything to intervene. This magnificent book is not to be missed."" -- ""Professor Shaul Harel, author of A Child without a Shadow """

"""I was one of the hidden children saved by the Belgian resistance. Andr�e Geulen and Ida Sterno are Rebecca Connolly's heroes, but they were also my saving team who risked everything to intervene. This magnificent book is not to be missed."" -- ""Professor Shaul Harel, author of A Child without a Shadow """

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Rebecca Connolly is the author of more than two dozen novels. She calls herself a Midwest girl, having lived in Ohio and Indiana. She's always been a bookworm, and her grandma would send her books almost every month so she would never run out. Book Fairs were her carnival, and libraries are her happy place. She received a master's degree from West Virginia University. While doing research for this book, she discovered information about her own family history, including the fates of several unknown family members who perished in the concentration camps of World War II. Caroline Hewitt loves reading and imagining. Since she couldn't figure out a way to actually jump inside a novel, acting and adapting are the closest, and most satisfying, ways she has found to inhabit stories--like narrating audiobooks and adapting novels into plays.

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