MIDDLE GRADE
Odette’s Secrets by Maryann Macdonald
978-1-59990-750-5 • $16.99 $19.50 Can.
JUNE 2012 Hardcover middle-grade novel Ages 10 to 14; Grades 5 to 8 224 pages; 51⁄16 x 73⁄4
Bloomsbury • www.bloomsburykids.com
Territory: North America Canada: Bloomsbury via Penguin Commercial and merchandise, film and translation: The Chudney Agency All else: Bloomsbury Author location: New York, NY
Advance Praise: “Intimately and lyrically, Odette’s Secrets traces all the identities a young French girl must access to survive, and all the friends she needs to stand between herself and the Holocaust.” —Richard Peck, Newbery-winning author of A Year Down Yonder
Inspired by a true story, the moving tale of a little girl forced to hide in plain sight For Jews in Nazi-occupied Paris, nowhere is safe. So when Odette Meyer’s father is sent to a Nazi work camp, Odette’s mother takes desperate measures to protect her, sending Odette deep into the French countryside. There, Odette pretends to be a peasant girl, even posing as a Christian—and attending Catholic masses—with other children. But inside she is burning with secrets, and when the war ends Odette must figure out whether she can resume life in Paris as a Jew, or if she’s lost the connection to her former life forever. Inspired by the life of the real Odette Meyer, this moving free-verse novel is a story of triumph over adversity.
MARYANN MACDONALD has written more than twenty books, including The Costume Copycat and The Little Piano Girl. She lives in New York, New York. www.maryannmacdonald.com
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