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Original Title:	Someone Named Eva
ISBN:	0618535799 (ISBN13: 9780618535798)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Slovakia Czechoslovakia Poland
Literary Awards:	Society of Midland Authors Award Nominee for Children's Fiction (2008), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2010)

Someone Named Eva

Joan M. Wolf

Hardcover | Pages: 200 pages

Rating: 4.11 | 8846 Users | 852 Reviews

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Title	:	Someone Named Eva
Author	:	Joan M. Wolf
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 200 pages
Published	:	July 16th 2007 by Clarion Books (first published 2007)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. World War II. Holocaust. Young Adult. War. Fiction

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Don't blink or you'll miss it. The arrival of a noteworthy work of historical fiction for kids tends to work one of two ways. Either the marketing machine behind the book hits bookstores and libraries full-force, cramming said book down everyone's throats until they yield and make it a bestseller/award winner... or nothing happens at all. The book slips onto shelves without so much as a squeak, never insisting that anyone go out of their way to find it. "Someone Named Eva" belongs firmly in the latter camp. It's small and subtle and extraordinarily good. The kind of WWII children's fiction other authors should look to emulate, given the chance. Eleven-year-old Milada remembers the night. The night when there was pounding on the door and Nazis in her Czechoslovakian home. The night when her grandmother pressed a garnet pin into her hand and told her to never forget who she was. But since that time Milada had a difficult time keeping that promise. Having been forcibly removed from her family and taken to a bizarre Nazi-run girl's school, Milada quickly learns the reason for her presence in the Lebensborn center; her shiny golden hair and bright blue eyes. Renamed Eva, Milada is part of a system intent upon turning her into a "good" German citizen. The kind of place where she can be taught the evils of the Jews, the glory of Hitler, and the joys of being adopted into a real German family's home. Based on events following the destruction of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, author Joan Wolf tells of the real Lebensborn center in Poland, the crimes it committed against an untold number of girls during WWII, and what it takes to stay true to your heritage. Wolf is also very good at displaying the effectiveness of intense psychological brainwashing. When Milada says that, "it was hard to remember that I wasn't a Nazi, that I didn't want to be the Aryan ideal, that I hated Germany," you understand why she says this. The psychological damage inflicted on these girls must have been intense. Little wonder then that, as Wolf mentions in her Author's Note, "Very little has been written in English about the Lebensborn centers that housed kidnapped children, part of which may be due to the fact that so few children were found after the war." What's more, Wolf knows how to manipulate her reader so that we find ourselves in the same position as Milada. When she realizes with a shock that she can't remember her old name, I challenge you to remember it yourself. It's gone and as she wracks her memory, we wrack our own. Such a clever technique. My mind makes me pair books together. That's just how it works. And at some point, mid-way through a read of "Someone Named Eva", I realized that this book should be paired alongside The Night of the Burning: Devorah's Story by Linda Press Wulf. Both take place during WWII, and they deal with very different adoption journeys. You could create an entire reading unit out of these two books alone. It's almost as if they were made for one another, so perfectly to they complement and contrast one another's themes. Before you do that, however, you must read this book first. It's Joan M. Wolf's first book for children, and I want it to get a proper amount of attention. Books like this one don't write themselves. For a good jolt of historical fiction to the brain, "Someone Named Eva" may well be one of the smartest books of the year.

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Imagine being forcibly removed from your home, your nationality and your family only to be brainwashed and trained to be a poster child for a new fascist society. Milada's reality is that she's about to be put up for adoption and a German family has their eyes on her. She's Polish, converted to be different, but through all the confusion she struggles to keep her real identity and find people she can trust. I loved this book, its vivid imagery and characters are unforgettable and it's a reminder

I was bored roaming my house and I picked this up. I forgot the actual story, but then I started reading it. It is told in the perspective of Eva, a girl about 11 at the start of the Nazis over taking Czechoslovakia or something like that. I thinks it portrays how a girl that is actually accepted from the nazis and is part of the "aryan" race really good. It's much different from other WWII because it is told in the eyes of a girl who lost everything and gets ripped away from her family to be

Don't blink or you'll miss it. The arrival of a noteworthy work of historical fiction for kids tends to work one of two ways. Either the marketing machine behind the book hits bookstores and libraries full-force, cramming said book down everyone's throats until they yield and make it a bestseller/award winner... or nothing happens at all. The book slips onto shelves without so much as a squeak, never insisting that anyone go out of their way to find it. "Someone Named Eva" belongs firmly in the

I cried while reading this book. It was heart breaking and very powerful.Honestly, I don't think I can add anything else right now as I need to mentally work through the horror of what I have just read. Joan Wolf is a genius.5/5

Monday at the library they had a new display of nominees for the Beehive Award (similar to Texas' Bluebonnets) so I picked up this book. This is an amazing work, not only because I carried it around with me all day yesterday eager to keep reading at each free moment, but also because it addressed a chapter of history I had not heard before (while fiction, it appears to have been well researched). I had no idea that Hitler's forces had basically kidnapped children from all their occupied areas

I am in the middle of the book Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf. This is such an interesting book, it gives you such great detail. An example of the detail is when the author explains about Fräulein Krüger,one of the characters. The author says she was wearing a crisp blue shirt and tight braid. When I first heard about the book I wasn't quite sure, but when I actually started reading it I realized the saying, "Don't judge a book by its cover", is very true in ths case. The book starts out with

I have read numerous books about the Holocaust. Generally, the young adult books I've read are about Jewish survivors. Someone Named Eva is a book about a Catholic survivor. Malida is a Catholic Czech living in the village of Lidice. Czechoslovakia was under Nazi reign and assigned a "protector", Reinhard Heydrich. At the end of May, 1942 resistance fighters attempted to assassinate Heydrich. Their attempt was successfully in that Heydrich died of wounds he received a few days after the attempt