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An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2, from the acclaimed author of Jefferson's Sons and for fans of Number the Stars.
Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn't waste a minute - she sneaks out to join him.
So begins a new adventure of Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan - and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother?
This masterful work of historical fiction is equal parts adventure and a moving tale of family and identity - a classic in the making.
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Listening Length: 7 hours and 38 minutes
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Listening Library
Audible.com Release Date: January 8, 2015
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I bought this book based on reviews for my grand-daughter, and she loved it. She even gave it to my wife to read. When she did, a faint warning bell began ringing in my wife’s heart at the end of it, something she couldn’t quite put her finger on. She went ahead and bought the sequel for our grand-daughter, “The War I Finally Wonâ€, but that nagging feeling prompted her to read this book before giving it to her. All the way through the book, that “something†continued to trouble her until it became clear what the author’s hidden agenda was: to prepare young hearts to believe that a certain (carefully unspecified) lifestyle is ok, even if some people, such as one’s parents, reject you, and that if you choose that unmentioned lifestyle, you’re not at all wrong; you’re a victim, and you might even become a wonderful hero.This is a very well written book, but extraordinarily crafty in its ulterior motive, that innocent young girls will very much enjoy reading.
As a child I was what one might call a selective reader. Selective in that I studiously avoided any and all works of fiction that might conceivably be considered "depressing". "Bridge to Terabithia"? I'll have none please. "Island of the Blue Dolphins"? Pass. "Jacob Have I Loved?" Not in this lifetime. Lord only knows what caused a book to be labeled "depressing" in my eyes before I'd even read it. I think I went by covers alone. Books picturing kids staring out into the vast nothingness of the universe were of little use to me. Happily I got over this phase and eventually was able to go back to those books I had avoided to better see what I had missed. Still, that 10-year-old self is always with me and I confer with her when I'm reading new releases. So when I read "The War That Saved My Life" I had to explain to her, at length, that in spite of the premise, cover (again with the kids staring out into nothingness), and time period this isn't the bleak stretch of depressingness it might appear to be. Enormously satisfying and fun to read, Bradley takes a work of historical fiction and gives the whole premise of WWII evacuees a kick in the pants.Ada is ten and as far as she can tell she's never been outdoors. Never felt the sun on her face. Never seen grass. Born with a twisted foot her mother considers her an abomination and her own personal shame. So when the chance comes for Ada to join her fellow child evacuees, including her little brother Jamie, out of the city during WWII she leaps at the chance. Escaping to the English countryside, the two are foisted upon a woman named Susan who declares herself to be "not nice" from the start. Under her care the siblings grow and change. Ada discovers Susan's pony and is determined from the get-go to ride it. And as the war progresses and things grow dire, she finds that the most dangerous thing isn't the bombs or the war itself. It's hope. And it's got her number.I may have mentioned it before, but the word that kept coming to mind as I read this book was "satisfying". There's something enormously rewarding about this title. I think a lot of the credit rests on the very premise. When a deserving kid receives deserving gifts, it releases all kinds of pleasant endorphins in the brain of he reader. It feels like justice, multiple times over. We're sympathetic to Ava from the start, but I don't know that I started to really like her until she had to grapple with the enormity of Susan's sharp-edged kindness. As an author, Bradley has the unenviable job of making a character like Ada realistic, suffering real post-traumatic stress in the midst of a war, and then in time realistically stronger. This isn't merely a story where the main character has to learn and grow and change. She has this enormous task of making Ava strong in every possible way after a lifetime of systematic, often horrific, abuse. And she has to do so realistically. No deus ex machina. No sudden conversion out of the blue. That she pulls it off is astounding. Honestly it made me want to reread the book several times over, if only to figure out how she managed to display Ada's anger and shock in the face of kindness with such aplomb. For me, it was the little lines that conveyed it best. Sentences like the one Ada says after the first birthday she has ever celebrated: "I had so much. I felt so sad." It's not a flashy thing to say. Just true.You can see the appeal of writing characters like Ada and Jamie. Kids who have so little experience with the wider world that they don't know a church from a bank or vice versa. The danger with having a character ignorant in this way is that they'll only serve to annoy the reader. Or, perhaps worse, their inability to comprehend simple everyday objects and ideas will strike readers as funny or something to be mocked. Here, Bradley has some advantages over other books that might utilize this technique. For one thing, by placing this book in the past Ada is able to explain to child readers historical facts without stating facts that would be obvious to her or resorting to long bouts of exposition. By the same token, child readers can also pity Ada for not understanding stuff that they already do (banks, church, etc.).Ms. Bradley has written on her blog that, "I don't write in dialect, for several reasons, but I try to write dialogue in a way that suggests dialect." American born (Indiana, to be specific) she has set her novel in historical England (Kent) where any number of accents might be on display. She could have peppered the book with words that tried to replicate the sounds of Ada's London accent or Susan's Oxford educated one. Instead, Ms. Bradley is cleverer than that. As she says, she merely suggests dialect. One of the characters, a Mr. Grimes, says things like "Aye" and ends his sentences with words like "like". But it doesn't feel forced or fake. Just mere hints of an accent that would allow a reader to pick it up or ignore it, however they preferred.Basically what we have here is "Anne of Green Gables" without quite so much whimsy. And in spite of the presence of a pony, this is not a cutesy pie book. Instead, it's a story about a girl who fights like a demon against hope. She fights it with tooth and claw and nail and just about any weapon she can find. If her life has taught her anything it's that hope can destroy you faster than abuse. In this light Susan's kindness is a danger unlike anything she's ever encountered before. Ms. Bradley does a stellar job of bringing to life this struggle in Ada and in inflaming a similar struggle in the hearts of her young readers. You root for Ada. You want her to be happy. Yet, at the same time, you don't want your heart to be broken any more than Ada does. Do you hope for her future then? You do. Because this is a children's book and hope, in whatever form it ultimately takes, is the name of the game. Ms. Bradley understands that and in "The War That Saved My Life" she manages to concoct a real delight out of a story that in less capable hands would have been a painful read. This book I would hand to my depression-averse younger self. It's fun. It's exciting. It's one-of-a-kind.For ages 9-12.
Wow! We really loved this well-written book. I even learned a new word, chivvying! I read it to my 7-year-old. Actually, the entire family listened raptly during a 2-hour car trip even though my husband, mother, and older daughter only heard a portion of the middle of the book during the trip. The story is just that engaging. It really gives you an interesting perspective on that time in history. My daughter had never heard of a newsreel so we watched some showing the evacuation of troops at Dunkirk. It really made history so real for my daughter and for me too really.The book also does an amazing job of showing how the physical and emotional abuse faced by Ada and to a lesser extent Jaime, affected them and their choices. My daughter and I spent a lot of time discussing why Ada acted in a certain way. We often stopped and dissected the scenes even going so far as to discuss PTSD when Ada was afraid of going into the little bomb shelter that brought back the fear of being locked in the damp, crowded, bug-infested cabinet under the kitchen sink in her mam's flat. The author does such a great job of sharing with the reader Ada's inner turmoil and fears. We also spent some time discussing Jaime's behavior and even Susan's. Understanding Mam was much more difficult so I just explained to my daughter that sometimes we do not understand why people do horrible things. Even if we did understand Mam, it would not excuse her for the choices she made. They were still her choices.One reviewer mentioned the bad language. There are a few times bloody (which is a bad word in the U.K. but not here) and hell are used. The only word I edited out on the fly as I was reading to my 7-year-old was sl@t. Mam calls Susan a "lazy sl@t in a fancy house." I substituted cow and my daughter did not notice. I also decided not to go into Susan and Becky's relationship. The book says they were friends from university and that explanation was perfectly fine for my 7-year-old.This is a great book packed with insights not only into the time period of war torn England from the perspective of a child but also into the timeless themes of human nature.
In my opinion the topics in this book are for a more mature audience. The main character, Ada, a 10 year old girl, is severely abused and neglected by her mother. Ada was born with a club foot. While surgery could have corrected the club foot, Ada’s mother chose not to forgo the surgery to save money. Instead she kept Ada locked in their flat and told people she was “simple†or mentally handicapped as well as physically handicapped. Sadly her mother’s pure hatred towards her, while may be reality for many children, is too harsh for a children’s book. I was also not happy with the hints of prostitution, lesbianism, and the use of the word slut in the book, as well as many historical inaccuracies. I do not recommend this book to children.
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