The Last Year of the War By Susan Meissner Material:Soft Cover But behind the gilded exterior

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The Last Year of the War By Susan Meissner Material:Soft Cover But behind the gilded exteriorElise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen year old in 1943 aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U. S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including her own identity. The only thing that makes the camp