A mesmerizing historical novel of suspense and intrigue about a teenage girl who risks everything to save her missing brother.
Poland, July 1944.Sixteen-year-old Maria is making her way home after years of forced labor in Nazi Germany, only to find her village destroyed and her parents killed in a war between the Polish Resistance and Ukrainian nationalists. To Marias shock, the local Resistance unit is commanded by her older brother, Tomekwho she thought was dead. He is now a Silent Unseen, a special-operations agent with an audacious plan to resist a new and even more dangerous enemy sweeping in from the East.
When Tomek disappears, Maria is determined to find him, but the only person who might be able to help is a young Ukrainian prisoner and the last person Maria trustseven as she feels a growing connection to him that she cant resist.
Tightly woven, relentlessly intense,The Silent Unseendepicts an explosive entanglement of loyalty, lies, and love during wartime, from Amanda McCrina, the acclaimed author ofTraitor, a debut hailed by Elizabeth Wein as Alive with detail and vivid with insight . . . a piercing and bittersweet story.
Amanda McCrinais a writer, historian, and bookseller. She holds a degree in history and political science from the University of West Georgia. Her novels include
Traitor,
The Silent Unseennamed a
School Library JournalBest Book of the Year 2022and
I'll Tell You No Lies, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. She lives outside Nashville, Tennessee.
School Library JournalBest Young Adult Books of the Year
Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year
McCrina soars in her writing as she depicts this complicated piece of forgotten history. Well researched, accurate, and smartly written, this is a page-turner, weaving together the horrors of war and its psychological consequences beaul#k
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