“I don’t want to have to feel grateful,” I said. “Fear and what you did with it were two separate things.” When the world hadn’t been fully explored, mapmakers imagined dragons living at the far ends.” “People used to draw dragons on the edges of old maps. “Love isn’t as rare as you think it is…You can love all sorts of people, in all sorts of ways. Goodreads Quotes from The War I Finally Won This second, marvelous volume continues Ada’s powerful, uplifting story. How can she help the ones she loves and keep them safe?Īda’s first story, The War that Saved My Life, won a Newbery Honor, the Schneider Family Book Award, and the Josette Frank Award, in addition to appearing on multiple best-of-the-year lists. However, circumstances bring them in close proximity along with other unexpected characters.Īda comes face to face with another German! This time she isn’t sure what she should do. Ada has never been interested in getting to know her friend’s family-especially Maggie’s mother, the formidable Lady Thorton. World War II continues, and forces the small community to come together and rely on one another. Although Jamie adapts more easily, Ada still struggles with the aftermath of her old life, and how to fit into her new life. What’s the story about?Īda and her younger brother, Jamie, now have a permanent home with their loving legal guardian, Susan Smith. So are understanding, acceptance, loyalty, friendship and love. Cruelty, physical and emotional pain, disability, sickness, war, and death, and grief are faced head on. One of the most refreshing things about the stories is that the target audience of 8-12 year olds isn’t patronized. Author Kimberly Brubaker Bradley doesn’t sugarcoat how people were seen and treated in WWII England, whether they were poor or wealthy, children or adults, single or married, Jews or Nazis, and soldiers or spies. I’m currently reading the insightful, researched, and devastating book Caste, The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson, and realize how much caste and hierarchy is present in The War I Finally Won, the 2017 sequel to The War That Saved My Life.

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