Book Club 6th - 9th grade: "The War That Saved My Life"

Coordinator: Andrea Lizcano Summers

Assitants: Allison Marleau & Linda Watson

Grades: 6th - 9th grades

Book: "The War That Saved My Life" by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

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Ten-year old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is

too humiliated by ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So, when her little

brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t

waste a minute -she sneaks out to join him. So begins a new adventure

for Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two

kids in. As ada teachers herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and

watches for German Spies, she begins to trust Susan, and Susan

begins to love Ada and Jaime. But in the end, will their bond be enough

to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall

back into the cruel hands of their mother?