Torn Thread Author:Anne Isaacs it is June 1943, and for four years the Nazi armies have occupied the Polish town of Bedzin. Twelve-year-old Eva, along with her father and her sister, have been forced to leave their comfortable home and move into a tiny attic in the Jewish ghetto. — But Eva's life takes an even more terrifying turn when she and her sister are torn from thei... more »r father and imprisoned in a Nazi work camp. There, Eva is forced to spin thread to make blankets and uniforms for the German army. As she struggles amid ever-worsening dangers to save her life and that of her sick sister, Eva's world tears apart like the weak threads on her spinning machine . . .« less
A good starter book about the Jewish work camps during WWII. Just enough info to give children the idea of the horrors of that war. Yet, not enough as to scare them.