This again I read when I was 12, from that free books program at school that I mentioned in my last post. Again I read this book as much as I did the last one (I only had those two books at the time). I have to say though I honestly thought Patty (the main character), was rather stupid in hiding Anton, (the guy), I mean come on your Jewish, and you just think you can hide a Nazi German solider in your garage apartment without anyone ever noticing?! She didn't think things through enough until it was too late. No offense to anyone who's fall in "love" at the age of 12 but seriously I don't remember if they mention his age in the book, but if he's in the army that means he's at least 6 years older than you, that is if he's 18 he could be older though, and it's kind of disturbing.Other than that I like the book rather sad though, the way her life is I'd get why she wanted to run away. This is what I thought years later, at the time when I was 12 (coincidence of being the same age as the girl in the book), I thought she could get away with it, parents ignore her unless the dad wanted to beat her, and the housekeeper was her friend, easy peasy right? Then again, if you do get away with it, where the heck would you go? I mean if you run away with him you can't exactly go to Germany with him you're Jewish that's like signing your death warrant right there. Where else can you go? You're 12 with a POW there's not many places you can go.
Funny though when you're a kid you want to run away all the time. I was one of them always saying I would run away. I'd grab my box of girl legos (the ones that are pink, green and white), two pennies and walk out the door, only to make it to the mailbox turn back around and go back in the house either super mad or crying. Nowadays though being a grown up I want to run away even more I mean what grown up likes to pay bills, worry about your job, and pay taxes? If you're reading this and you're one of those grown ups that likes all that stuff, comment and tell me about it I might change my mind lol. Out of these 2 books, I like this one better than the last one.
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