In the Blink of an Eye

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Summary: In the Blink of An Eye
Review: An emotionally, compelling, moving story set in 1938 Nazi-occupied Vienna. The story is told through the eyes of a courageous 7 year old, introducing young readers to the holocaust.This book has a "hook" as it makes you want to read on. It keeps your interest as you want to know what will happen to Rachael and her family. A must for young readers. It should definitely be included in school libraries and on school reading lists.

Rating:
Summary: In the Blink of An Eye
Review: An emotionally, compelling, moving story set in 1938 Nazi-occupied Vienna. The story is told through the eyes of a courageous 7 year old, introducing young readers to the holocaust.This book has a "hook" as it makes you want to read on. It keeps your interest as you want to know what will happen to Rachael and her family. A must for young readers. It should definitely be included in school libraries and on school reading lists.

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Summary: In the Blink of an Eye
Review: Lynn Solte's historical novel is a literal page-turner. I broke from reading it only long enough to feed my cat and me supper, and then I continued reading while I ate.

Based upon the real experiences of four Holocaust survivors, the story is told as a young girl's experience of her family's will to survive and escape Hitler's beginning of the expunging of Jews, yet not knowing why he was doing that.

This fast-paced, smoothly delivered story has the right amount of description of people, places, and events, i.e., only that which real life persons in that situation would learn. The author correctly provides no asides. A glossary explains the few, appropriately used non-English words and phrases.

This wonderful book is written for people of all ages, too. Although I'm an old man, I had no problem identifying with the family. I related mostly to the girl's mother because I knew what my single parent mother had gone through just to provide for us kids. I had gone through some tough times, too, as a breadwinner for my family. But my mom and I didn't have anyone wanting to kill us.

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Summary: IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE
Review: What a wonderfully emotional story that can be enjoyed by all ages. It is especially suited for today's children so each can understand and parallel the Holocaust with the events of this generation. As the plot unwinds one cannot forsee its direction which makes the story line so compelling that it is difficult to put the book down.