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Original Title:	Someone Named Eva
ISBN:	0618535799 (ISBN13: 9780618535798)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Slovakia Czechoslovakia Poland
Literary Awards:	Society of Midland Authors Award Nominee for Children's Fiction (2008), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2010)

Someone Named Eva Hardcover | Pages: 200 pages

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Title	:	Someone Named Eva
Author	:	Joan M. Wolf
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 200 pages
Published	:	July 16th 2007 by Clarion Books (first published 2007)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. World War II. Holocaust. Young Adult. War. Fiction

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Don't blink or you'll miss it. The arrival of a noteworthy work of historical fiction for kids tends to work one of two ways. Either the marketing machine behind the book hits bookstores and libraries full-force, cramming said book down everyone's throats until they yield and make it a bestseller/award winner... or nothing happens at all. The book slips onto shelves without so much as a squeak, never insisting that anyone go out of their way to find it. "Someone Named Eva" belongs firmly in the latter camp. It's small and subtle and extraordinarily good. The kind of WWII children's fiction other authors should look to emulate, given the chance. Eleven-year-old Milada remembers the night. The night when there was pounding on the door and Nazis in her Czechoslovakian home. The night when her grandmother pressed a garnet pin into her hand and told her to never forget who she was. But since that time Milada had a difficult time keeping that promise. Having been forcibly removed from her family and taken to a bizarre Nazi-run girl's school, Milada quickly learns the reason for her presence in the Lebensborn center; her shiny golden hair and bright blue eyes. Renamed Eva, Milada is part of a system intent upon turning her into a "good" German citizen. The kind of place where she can be taught the evils of the Jews, the glory of Hitler, and the joys of being adopted into a real German family's home. Based on events following the destruction of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, author Joan Wolf tells of the real Lebensborn center in Poland, the crimes it committed against an untold number of girls during WWII, and what it takes to stay true to your heritage. Wolf is also very good at displaying the effectiveness of intense psychological brainwashing. When Milada says that, "it was hard to remember that I wasn't a Nazi, that I didn't want to be the Aryan ideal, that I hated Germany," you understand why she says this. The psychological damage inflicted on these girls must have been intense. Little wonder then that, as Wolf mentions in her Author's Note, "Very little has been written in English about the Lebensborn centers that housed kidnapped children, part of which may be due to the fact that so few children were found after the war." What's more, Wolf knows how to manipulate her reader so that we find ourselves in the same position as Milada. When she realizes with a shock that she can't remember her old name, I challenge you to remember it yourself. It's gone and as she wracks her memory, we wrack our own. Such a clever technique. My mind makes me pair books together. That's just how it works. And at some point, mid-way through a read of "Someone Named Eva", I realized that this book should be paired alongside The Night of the Burning: Devorah's Story by Linda Press Wulf. Both take place during WWII, and they deal with very different adoption journeys. You could create an entire reading unit out of these two books alone. It's almost as if they were made for one another, so perfectly to they complement and contrast one another's themes. Before you do that, however, you must read this book first. It's Joan M. Wolf's first book for children, and I want it to get a proper amount of attention. Books like this one don't write themselves. For a good jolt of historical fiction to the brain, "Someone Named Eva" may well be one of the smartest books of the year.

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I feel like I've ended up studying World War II and the Holocaust so extensively throughout my school years that I'm surprised when I learn something genuinely new about the events that took place then, but Someone Named Eva offers a new glimpse into the horrors of the Holocaust. Milada, the main character, is one of many Czech children who were taken from their families - who were either killed or sent to concentration camps - in order to be "re-educated" and then adopted into German families.

This is a youth fiction book, but we read it outloud as we traveled to Las Vegas for Christmas. It tells a story based on actual events in Czechoslovakia during World War II, that I had never known about. The Nazis destroyed the small city of Lidice as revenge for an assassination of a Nazi leader by a group of rebels believed to be from Lidice. They lined up and killed every man and boy, and sent all of the women and most of the children to work camps where the majority of them died of

I currently finished Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf. This review is only about the theme of the story,which I like to describe by picking words to describe the theme. I think the the two words that best state the theme of the book are hope & bravery. The first is bravery because Milada was taken away from her family to go to a harsh German boarding school to learn German ways,the language, and life. As well as getting a new name,Eva. It was hard for her since she was Czech and hated the

Milada is an eleven year old Czechoslovakian girl who lives with her loving family during World War Two. One night, the Nazis invade her home and she is separated from her family. Because of her perfectly Aryan blonde hair and blue eyes, she is sent to center in Poland where she is renamed Eva and is trained to become a German citizen so that she can become adopted into a German family. Throughout this traumatic ordeal, Eva struggles to remember who she is and hold on to the hope that one day

I have read numerous books about the Holocaust. Generally, the young adult books I've read are about Jewish survivors. Someone Named Eva is a book about a Catholic survivor. Malida is a Catholic Czech living in the village of Lidice. Czechoslovakia was under Nazi reign and assigned a "protector", Reinhard Heydrich. At the end of May, 1942 resistance fighters attempted to assassinate Heydrich. Their attempt was successfully in that Heydrich died of wounds he received a few days after the attempt

Someone Named Eva is by far the most moving and masterfully written book that I had read in a while.... This historical fiction novel tells the story of a young girl, Milada from a small town in Czech. Her life is blissful and peaceful, as the only effect the war has had in her small town is food rations for sweets and sugar. That is until one ordinary night when Milada is woken to the screaming sounds of her mother and the sharp cries of her sister. Milada rushes down to find German soilders,