Claras Secret, David Genning
Claras Secret, David Genning
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Clara's Secret
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Author: David Genning

Narrator: Highlights for Children

Unabridged: 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highlights

Published: 07/27/2018

Categories: Children's Fiction


Synopsis

Highlights presents Clara's Secret written by David Genning. Mom's cousin Clara comes to visit Mom and Sofia. Sofia is excited to learn that Clara wants to be a veterinarian like she does. When Sofia asks Clara to read her a book, Clara admits that she doesn't know how to read. Sofia and Mom offer to help Clara learn.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christopher on November 28, 2023

It will come as no surprise to his friends that Stephan Frenkel has written, designed, and published a beautifully crafted volume that might be described as a piece of literary Lalique. His chronicle tells the story of his paternal grandmother growing up in Berlin during the marvelous cultural apoth......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on August 09, 2023

Knowledge of your past The story follows Clara in the year 1939 as she leaves her home city of Berlin to travel. Along the way, she lives through Europe's gilded age and meets important pivotal figures of human history. This is an interesting book in the historical sense. However, I do not know how m......more

Goodreads review by Dorothy on January 29, 2024

The Purdue OWL defines creative nonfiction this way: “It is focused on story, meaning it has a narrative plot with an inciting moment, rising action, climax and denouement, just like fiction.” Stephan R. Frenkel in Clara’s Secret tells the story of his paternal grandmother, Clara Prinz. Frenkel had......more

Goodreads review by Pete on October 18, 2022

This is a huge triumph and debut for Stephan Frenkel. Clara's Secret is a great sweep of the influences on his Grandmother as a teen and young woman growing up in Berlin during the Belle Epoque (1901 to 1914) . It is simultaneously a detailed history of that peaceful and hopeful period and compellin......more

Goodreads review by Yvonne on January 28, 2023

In his opening pages, Stephan Frenkel sets the stage for the wonder of Berlin during the Belle Epoque. He introduces his protagonist, Clara, in the city's famous Tiergarten, awaiting the arrival of Kaiser Wilhelm and his imperial guard. She is 11 years old. We also learn that she is Stephan's belove......more