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The “Girl in the Blue Coat” is a perfect book for a classroom book study of the Holocaust, and also life in occupied countries during WWII. Monica Hesse is the author of this book. The Girl in the Blue Coat is an excellent, well-written book about the WWII. In the story, a young girl works on the black market to provide items to her town’s people and learns that even in war life still happens. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the Dutch front lines when the Germans invaded. She likes to think of her illegal work as a small act of rebellion. On a routine delivery, a client asks Hanneke for help. Expecting to hear that Mrs Janssen wants meat or kerosene, Hanneke is shocked by the older woman’s frantic plea to find a person a Jewish teenager Mrs Janssen had been hiding, which has vanished without a trace from a secret room. Hanneke initially wants nothing to do with such dangerous work but is ultimately drawn into a web of mysteries and stunning revelations that lead her into the heart of the resistance, open her eyes to the horrors of the Nazi war machine, and compel her to take desperate action. An easy book, intricately plotted, and lovely story about friendship, young love and acts of bravery during the war.

“They Went Left” is a story of love, loss, heartbreak, and unbreakable bonds. This novel is written by  Monica Hesse. This is a gorgeous story about how life doesn’t always work out the way we want it to, but if we’re willing, we can still make it a great life. It is a good compelling story, engaging and easy to read. This is the perfect holiday novel, you can pick it up and get straight back into the story. The novel “They Went Left” is an enjoyable story that moves along at a good pace. It is not too quickly, but at a pace that keeps the reader engaged waiting to discover the outcome. It has a satisfactory ending which is a little predictable but ties up all the loose ends. Some of the male characters are a little too good to be true but that doesn’t spoil any part of the story. The author switches between the two time periods effortlessly and easily which doesn’t always happen in these kinds of books. Each storyline had a richness that was only strengthened by the comparison and contrast to the other.