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OverviewSelected Best Book for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre It's 1937, and Katya is working as a servant girl on the Trakehner horse breeding estate in East Prussia where she is caught up in the Nazi spirit of the time. One hot June day, Katya and her Jewish friend Minna Epstein travel to Rauschen, a spa town on the Baltic, to search for a perfect piece of amber. Helmut and David, the estate owner's two sons, accompany them and things go from peaceful and predictable to dramatic and unsettling. By summer's end, Minna has to leave for Vienna, ostensibly, to study acting. The new girl who replaces her, Gretchen, is an avid Nazi supporter. She and Helmut, an aspiring SS recruit, soon become a couple. Meanwhile, David and Katya enjoy riding in the East Prussian countryside. One evening, David, the sensitive son who will have nothing to do with Nazism, has an epileptic seizure. According to the 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws, he must be sterilized. As Katya and David struggle to salvage their relationship, Minna writes and shares how under the guise of amber hunting, Helmut seduced her and left her holding a piece of amber containing a doomed life. Breeding Trakehner horses might be an exact science, but breeding perfect Aryans is much more complicated. Goldstone deftly plunges the reader into a past when Hitler's ideas seemed new and fresh. A timely read.-- Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, Author of Making Bombs for Hitler 4 Stars - Highly recommended-- CM: Canadian Review of Materials Fiction. Young Adult. Historical Fiction. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gabriele GoldstonePublisher: Ronsdale Press Imprint: Ronsdale Press Dimensions: Width: 13.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.00cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9781553806141ISBN 10: 155380614 Pages: 270 Publication Date: 05 July 2021 Recommended Age: From 9 to 12 years Audience: Children/juvenile , Children / Juvenile Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationGabriele Goldstone writes the books she wishes she could have read while growing up in Winnipeg, Manitoba - as the self-conscious firstborn of postwar immigrants. Visit her at gabrielegoldstone.blogspot.com to learn more about the research behind her novels and to follow her historical meanderings. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |