Trapped in Hitler's Web

So often WW II books are told from the vantage point of Great Britain, France, or Germany. So often points further east are not given the attention that this new title does. In it we read the story of Maria and her experiences on a work farm in Austria. Posters plastered around her village in the Uk......more

Marsha F. Skrypuch’s story of Krystia in “Don’t Tell the Nazis” is augmented with her sister’s experience in “Trapped in Hitler’s Web,” but both books can be read as a stand alone novels. Maria has escaped their Nazi invaded town with her best friend Nathan who has taken on the identity of a decease......more

Great sequel to "Don't tell the Nazis." The book let me journey along with Maria and Nathan, middle-grade age children, who bravely and naively, volunteer to be labourers for the Third Reich. I grew quite attached to Maria and her difficult situation. Later, I appreciated the afterword where the aut......more

It's October 1942 and Ukraine is now occupied by Nazi soldiers, having already defeated the Soviet occupiers. Maria Fediuk, 11, has just made the difficult decision, at her friend Nathan's urging, to leave her home in Viteretz and travel to the German Reich. There, she hopes to get a job so that she......more

i loved it! one thing i love about marsha’s writing is that it tells the lesser known stories of wwll, and this was one of them. you can learn so much from her books! i finished the book in two days, and it was an excellent read. would definitely recommend!......more