'A fitting sequel.' NZ Listener, 50 Best Books for KidsĪda's voice is honest and authentic and true.A novel to curl up with on a rainy day it took me back to the novels I read and loved as a child.' Steph Bowe, author of Night SwimmingĪchingly lovely.Nuanced and emotionally acute, this vivid tale from the wartime home front will have readers ages 10-14 wincing at Ada's stumbles and rejoicing to the point of tears in her victories.

But it is a book, like its predecessor, that teems with beauty.Both books leave a profound afterglow and establish themselves firmly as classics to be loved and revisited.' Magpies 'Brubaker Bradley is unsparing in her rendition of the human toll that wars incur. She lives on a farm in Tennessee with her family. Kimberly Brubaker Bradley has written several historical novels for children and young adults, including the bestselling Newbery Honor Book The War that Saved My Life.

The War I Finally Won is the marvellous conclusion to Ada's powerful, uplifting story. Ada must decide-where do her loyalties lie? Then Ruth, a Jewish girl from Germany, moves in. But who is she, she wonders?Īda and her brother, Jamie, are living with their guardian, Susan, in a cottage in the English countryside, on the estate of the formidable Lady Thorton and her daughter, Maggie, Ada's dearest friend. When Ada's clubfoot is surgically fixed at last, she knows for certain that she's not what her mother said she was-crippled in her mind as well as in her body. This second, marvellous volume continues Ada's powerful, uplifting story.Like the classic heroines of literature, Ada wins our hearts as she continues her World War II adventures after the Newbery Honor–winning The War that Saved My Life. How can Ada keep fighting? And who will she struggle to save? The War that Saved My Life, won a Newbery Honor, the Schneider Family Book Award, the Josette Frank Award, and was shortlisted in the West Australian Young Readers' Book Award, 2017. Life in the crowded cottage is tense enough, and then, Ruth, a Jewish girl from Germany, moves in. What is she? Ada and her brother, Jamie, are living with their loving legal guardian, Susan, in a borrowed cottage on the estate of the formidable Lady Thorton and her daughter, Maggie. When Ada's clubfoot is surgically fixed at last, she knows for certain that she's not what her mother said she was-crippled mentally as well as physically. Like the classic heroines, Ada conquers the homefront as her World War II journey continues in this sequel to the Newbery Honor-winning The War that Saved My Life.

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