For Freedom The story of a French Spy

For Freedom The story of a French Spy written by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley.

This is a Utah Beehive Book Award Nominee. 2004-2005

Ages 10 & up.

I really enjoyed this book. It was hard for me top put down. It was written for juniors which made reading rather quick.

The Story is about a a young teenage girl Suzanne, who at age 13 saw the war start in her small town of Cherbourg France. As the war starts her life changes. She is forced out of her home,food is rationed and sometimes people just disappeared. Luckily she has a way to escape it. She can sing.
Suzanne has such a good voice that at age 14 she starts to sing with the Cherbourg Opera. She then starts to travel with them. Her local Doctor started to notice. He asked her to help out the resistance. She then becomes a spy. She starts to pass notes to people all over.

I think it is a great story. Whenever I think of WWII I always think about Anne Frank or Corrie Ten Boom and others that gave us insight into Jew concentration camps. I also Never think about the hand France had in helping the Allies. I always kind of thought France just kind of opened the door to Germany you know the path of least resistance kind of thing.

It was good to read that France did not just lay down and say come on in, that there were some people that fought the Germans and helped the Allies. This is the first and not the last that I hope to read about the French Resistance.

If you are like me and have never read anything about the French Resistance then this is a great book to get started with. I also recommend that you share this book with your children as well. I am going to have my 9 year old read it. So enjoy.

Next book is the Wind Singer by William Nicholson

The Beginning

I suggest that the only books that influence us
are those for which we are ready,
and which have gone a little farther down our particular path
than we have yet got ourselves.
~ E. M. Forster ~
I love to read! There is no better thing in the world. The words others have written can teach so much. There has not been a book that I have read that there hasn't been a passage that I feel was written for me. A paragraph that teaches me something.
So I have been asked many times for advise on what books to read and what books not to read. So I will write about the books that I read and then you can decide for yourselves. I will tell you what I think about them, sometimes I will even tell you what I learned from them. I will read I will write, you decide. And at any point you want me to read something and then let you know what I think please let me know.

Thank you for sharing this journey with me.

Sherie