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| #1 Posted on 17.2.04 1711.07 Reposted on: 17.2.11 1711.24 | I don't know if this is the play for this thread, but oh well. I'm figuring this is a long shot, but at least I can say that I tried.
There is a book I read several times as a kid. If anybody recognizes it, please tell me. Any help at all is greatly appreciated.
It's a WWII young adult novel about a girl (I can't remember her name), traveling in Europe, probably Germany or Poland, with her father. Their car breaks down near a country house where an old woman lives alone. The father promises to pay the woman if he watches his daughter while he goes for help. The woman doesn't like the girl, and repeatedly mispronounces her name.
While the father is gone, the woman's son shows up, fixes the father's truck, and him and the old woman take it, leaving the girl alone. She starts off to find her father, and finds an abandoned horse, a dog, and eventually twin brothers a few years older than her.
They arrive at the girl's home town, and the German's are occupying her family's home. The three of them decide to sabotage the German's by letting all the air out of the truck tires, but the girl gets caught. They put her in the town prison, but the brothers manage to break her out.
They find out later that her father was part of the resistance, and they are all reunited in a little house outside of town.
The part I remember most vividy is that the brothers disappear for a while before reaching the town, and they come back with some food and a clean dress for the girl. It's described as 'a brown wool dress three sizes to big'.
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| #2 Posted on 17.2.04 1815.19 Reposted on: 17.2.11 1815.50 | I know this isn't right, but when in doubt, go with "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich". | ALL ORIGINAL POSTS IN THIS THREAD ARE NOW AVAILABLE |
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