After her mother is shot at a Nazi checkpoint, 15-year-old Sarah meets a mysterious man who's part of the secret resistance against the Third Reich.
He needs Sarah, who's Jewish, to hide in plain sight at a school for the daughters of top Nazi brass, posing as one of them.
Like Inglourious Basterds for tweens, this clever YA title features Sarah, a blond, blue-eyed Jewish girl in 1939 Germany.
-- The New York Post After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah finds herself on the run from the Nazis in Third Reich-ruled Germany.
While trying to escape, Sarah meets a mysterious man with an ambiguous accent, a suspiciously bare apartment, and a lockbox full of weapons.
He's part of the secret resistance against the Reich, and he needs her help.
Sarah is to hide in plain sight at a boarding school for the daughters of top Nazi brass, posing as one of them.
She must befriend the daughter of a key scientist to gain access to the blueprints for a bomb that could destroy the cities of Western Europe, and steal them.
Sarah may look like the rest of the girls, innocent, blonde-haired, and young, but she refuses to become one of the monsters she's surrounded by.
She's a brilliant con artist, convincing them she's one of them even as she lives in terror of being found out.
And she's determined to get her revenge on them all.