In My Enemys House

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Summary: The best holocaust book i have ever read!
Review: ... This is a wounderfull book about the courage of a jewish girl during World War Two. This book, by Carol Matas, is an inspiring book and one of the best Holocaust books I have ever read. Marisa (the main characer) is a jewish girl during World War Two. With her blond hair and blue eyes she could pass for a pole, but why should she live when her mamma, pappa and most of her family are dead? Marisa has to reach deep inside herself and dscover the courage that he never knew she had to surive. I loved this book and I think everyone who loves people with courage, Holocaust stories, and loves to read realy good books with wounderful plots and meaning, this is deffently the best book for you! I hope you read it and enjoy it!

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Summary: A GREAT World War 2 book!
Review: After finding that most of her family is dead, Marisa, a Jewish girl, takes the advice of a family friend to pose as a Polish girl and work as a servant. Because of her blond hair and blue eyes, this is quite easy. At least until she's finds out that the person she is working for, Herr Reymann, is a Nazi official. Adding to this, his daughter, Charlotte, has a secret. And Marisa has to decide whether to tell her father and betray her or keep it and maybe get herself into more trouble. Not to mention keeping her own secret safe. The Reymanns are very nice to Marisa, but can she stand all the insults and hatred they have toward Jews? How could she possibly hold everything inside?
I really liked this book. At first, I wasn't that interested in it, but after you start reading, it's hard to put down! This book is good for anyone. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

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Summary: Wonderfull
Review: I throughly enjoyed this book. It is one of Carol Matas's best, and trust me, I've read them all. This book honestly gave me chills. I thought it was just me, being [foolish] I can understand what it would be like to open a door and see your death. However, I got some of my friends to read the book and I found they had much the same experience. In short, this book has the power to envoke strong feelings, joyousness, shock, sadness, and awful fear, and you will experience all of these in this book. It is an emotional roller coaster.

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Summary: A great Holocaust book
Review: This book is a great holocaust book that kids and adults will like. I believe this is one of the best books I've read. I got this and finished it the next day. I love Carol style of writing. She draws you into the book and really makes you feel and live her stories. This book is about a Jewish girl named Marisa's decision to leave her family in order to be saved. A lot of people say she was lucky others say she wasn't but in perspective back then she was really lucky.
This is I believe more of a girls book but many guys will like it. It has a lot of Daddy's little girl in the beginning but after that its all on survival and change. And the thing is even if you aren't a Jew you can understand how hard it would be to be in Germany safe when you family is being killed and how hard it would be for her. I would diffidently read this book again.

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Summary: A great Holocaust book
Review: This book is a great holocaust book that kids and adults will like. I believe this is one of the best books I've read. I got this and finished it the next day. I love Carol style of writing. She draws you into the book and really makes you feel and live her stories. This book is about a Jewish girl named Marisa's decision to leave her family in order to be saved. A lot of people say she was lucky others say she wasn't but in perspective back then she was really lucky.
This is I believe more of a girls book but many guys will like it. It has a lot of Daddy's little girl in the beginning but after that its all on survival and change. And the thing is even if you aren't a Jew you can understand how hard it would be to be in Germany safe when you family is being killed and how hard it would be for her. I would diffidently read this book again.

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Summary: A GREAT World War 2 book!
Review: What would you do if the only way to survive was to hide in the enemy's country? And even worse, in the enemy's house? This is exactly what Marisa has to do to save her own life. Her blonde hair and blue eyes disguising her as a Polish worker, Marisa goes to work in Germany, the papers of a Polish girl named Maria hiding her real identity as a Jew. Eventually, Marisa ends up working on a large farm for a Nazi family. As she stays on the farm longer, Marisa wonders- What should I think of these people?- as she becomes closer to Charlotte and the rest of the family and remembers her own family members, killed at the hands of the Nazis. The words of her father, cousin, and many more guide her through the toughest times as she learns that her heart should open up to see the real person inside everyone- even some of her enemies.

I loved this book, along with the many other World War 2 fiction books by Carol Matas. These books are great if you like to read historical fiction- they have real facts, great characters, intreging plots, and even a little bit of romance! I hope you like this book and maybe even the other Carol Matas books as much as I do!

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Summary: Amazing
Review: When I first picked up this book I thought it would be like all the other ones I have read. I was wrong, this story is completely different, Marisa is a Polish Jew who, with blond hair and blue eyes can pass for a Pole. She uses her looks to go to Germany to work as slave labor, there she meets many Germans who are actually nice to hr, book really makes you think. There is a part of the book were Marisa is talking to Charlotte, a German girl who became a very good friend of hers if it was OK to hurt a sick dog. Charlotte says "Why, anyone with any decency would put an animal to death painlessly. It's just a poor, dumb creature." Marisa then thinks to herself' It had to go beyone hate, didn't it, because they'd treat a rabid dog better then a Jew.' It really goes into the issue of how Marisa can live with her enemys and eventully forgive them. I encourage everyone to read this book, even if you think you know everything about the Holocaust. Well, happy reading!

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Summary: I hope you get the same vibes out of this book as I did.
Review: When I was first told about this book I thought it would be just another book about World War II and how a Jew went into hiding to escape Hitler. This book is about a girl named Marisa and how her blonde hair and blue eyes disguises her as a Polish worker. Marisa's family is separated and she is left alone with her cousin Shmuel, who she is in love with. He knows that the only way for Marisa to survive is to get papers from a family friend and take the identity of a Polish girl and work as a servant, to hide her true identity of a Jew. So that is what she does, she goes to Germany to get work and ends up working on a large farm for a Nazi family. The longer she stays on the farm the more confused she gets about her feelings toward this family. She gets very close to the oldest daughter on the farm named Charlotte. Charlotte has a secret and Marisa has to decide to betray her and tell her father about it to protect Charlotte and her own secret or to further endanger herself and Charlotte. Marisa is surprised that Charlotte and the rest of the family treat her like part of the family. Although Marisa kind of loves the Reymanns family she also hates them for some of the things they stand for, like all the insults and their hatred towards Jews, and for basically being Nazi. Can she stand pretending to be someone she's not?
At first I didn't think I would enjoy this book very much, but it shows you different views about how people thought about Jews and Hitler. Like the view of a Jew to the view of a Nazi. Even the view of anti-Hitler groups, they hated Hitler's ideas but they hated Jews too. This book would be enjoyed by mature children and adults. I hope you get the same vibes out of this book as I did.