Touch wood: a girlhood in occupied France
War, World War II
Human-narrated audio
Summary
The author recreates her girlhood experiences as a Jewish child in France during World War II. Written as a diary, her story takes her from the summer of 1940 when the Nazi invasion forces her family to flee, through a… prolonged separation in which she and her sisters live in a home run by Catholic nuns, through the confusion of the Allied invasion, to her family's reunion in Paris. Grades 5-8. 1988.