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Summary: A child's view
Review: "Eleanor's Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany" I thoroughly enjoyed the book. It gave a perspective of children's lives who live in a war torn state. It helped me with compassion for victims of war within a country. It takes us through all the emotions of a young girl - whether living in war or not. It shows how just living a normal life can be heroic in its own right. Excellent reading for young adult or adult. Great book for high school reading. Read it!
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Summary: I recommend this book for Middle/High school students
Review: "Eleanor's Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany" provides a new view of Nazi Germany from a child's perspective, a much needed text in the Middle/High School Curriculum. It strips away the propaganda of the times to show how the German people were caught up in the war, many against their wills, how the young were instilled with Nationalistic fervor in carefully programed school and community activities. The disillusionment and destruction of an entire generation of Germans is played out in the pages of Eleanor Ramrath Garner's moving narrative. I recommend this book as required reading for all ages.Rosemarie Dion, Reading Specialist
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Summary: A child's view
Review: "Eleanor's Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany" I thoroughly enjoyed the book. It gave a perspective of children's lives who live in a war torn state. It helped me with compassion for victims of war within a country. It takes us through all the emotions of a young girl - whether living in war or not. It shows how just living a normal life can be heroic in its own right. Excellent reading for young adult or adult. Great book for high school reading. Read it!
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Summary: I recommend this book for Middle/High school students
Review: "Eleanor's Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany" provides a new view of Nazi Germany from a child's perspective, a much needed text in the Middle/High School Curriculum. It strips away the propaganda of the times to show how the German people were caught up in the war, many against their wills, how the young were instilled with Nationalistic fervor in carefully programed school and community activities. The disillusionment and destruction of an entire generation of Germans is played out in the pages of Eleanor Ramrath Garner's moving narrative. I recommend this book as required reading for all ages. Rosemarie Dion, Reading Specialist
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Summary: Fantastic Reading
Review: A great book about the life of an American girl named Eleanor Ramrath Garner. In this autobiography she powerfully portrays the struggles she endures during the Hitler dictatorship. In it Eleanor experiences racism after the invasion of Czechoslovakia and she feels angry for being blamed for Hitlers' actions when she's an American. The book really pulls you as the reader in, making you feel the feelings she's experiencing. I can really relate to what she's going through because as a foreign descendent I am targeted due to my difference in culture and background.
The way Eleanor writes the book makes it clear and understandable to any age group. It's a book that I think everyone should read to really understand how the lives of the people were affected living in Germany. The stories that she include in her book is really specific and detailed that it pulls you in her world, aworld full of racism, death,and the fear of not knowing if they will die or survive.
Eleanor really portrays how Hitler's manipulation really worked on the people. By turning friends against friends and neighbors against neighbors.
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Summary: Eleanor's Story: An American Girl In Hitler's Germany
Review: A wonderful, historical, thought provoking, true story that everyone should read. All ages will love this book. I think all young people will get insight and knowledge of what life was in Germany during World War ll. Adults will be astounded to read a perspective of the unique circumstances that this family lived through.
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Summary: 100% Captivating, An Easy Read
Review: Complete with B&W photos of a time gone by, Eleanor is a sensitive storyteller and captivated me from Chapter 1. She holds nothing back, describing feelings and painting pictures with words about life as an American Child forced to move back to Germany just as WWII breaks out. This autobiography keeps you glued to the pages to see how she will cope as the next drama plays out. Although this book is geared toward young adults, I recommend this memoir to all adults.
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Summary: Hitler's Germany
Review: Eleanor's story(An American Girl in Hitler's Germany) written by Eleanor's Ramrath Garner is set in the 1940 in Berlin, Germany during world war 2 is a fantastic book. This Book is about this girl name Eleanor and her family who are all American citizans, Who move to Berlin after Eleanor's father is offered a job at a factory in Berlin. Only after being in Germany for alittle while the Brittish abd France declare war on Germany. Eleanor doesn't know germany very well, so when she starts a German school it is a big struggle for her. It's not that she couldn' speak German it was that the math, and Writting were really hard for her. When she goes and visits her Aunt and Uncle in Stolp her Uncle helps her so that she is a little better at it. She also meet alot of friends. Her best friend is Annemarie a german girl. It seem that almost instantly they became friends. Eleanor's mother during the seven years that they were in Germany gave birth to two children. The first one was a boy named Tommy. He sounds like such a adorable kid. Then about 18 months later her mother gets pregnant and soon after that gives birth to a baby girl named Bassi. After the war end their home is always being robbed and ravaged. All the women are being raped, but lucky none of Eleanors family was raped. I think that this book was excellent. The ending is the best part I believe. I would recommend this book to anybody who likes storys about World War 2.
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Summary: Amazing Story!
Review: Eleanor, an American citizen, faces the troubles of the second World War at a young age that continue through adolescence. As a foreigner in Germany during the war, she must remain silent about her own political views and opinions. Her family struggles through each day trying to survive Hitler's world with one another's love and devotion as American citizens. Garner does an excellent job of setting the tones for both the German and the American citizens as they continue their lives full of poverty, anguish and fear under the ruling class of Germany during that time. As a child torn between loyalty to both Germany and America, Garner recreates the constant dilemma of her childhood. The novel shows the life of a German during Hitler's reign, a life full of anxiety, terror, and hunger. It also shows the confusion to its full extent with bombings from the British and other Allied countries, long lines for small rations of food, deaths of many loves ones, and constant anxiety about the Gestapo taking away loved ones. Garner takes her audience on an adventure full of truthful disturbances and historical reality.
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Summary: Adult as well as Young Adult
Review: Eleanor, the child, is courageously present in this story of growing up in the midst of chaos and uncertainty. What must it be like to be awakened from sleep, in fear, night after night for months on end! Even though the setting is WWII, the story can give us a glimpse of a child's life under the bombs today, in places like Bosnia, Chechnya and Kosovo. I would highly recommend this book to adult readers, as well as high schoolers.
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