03112cam a2200565 i 4500 988717349 TxAuBib 20230930120000.0 230623s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781538742136 paperback 1538742136 paperback (OCoLC)1388641518 TxAuBib rda Bennett, Ann, 1962- The child without a home / Ann Bennett. New York : Forever, 2023. 317 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Contains Club Car reading group guide, pages 309-317. 1944. When the war comes to twelve-year-old Agnes? village her life changes in an instant. Her father is dragged away by soldiers and her mother is mercilessly killed, leaving Agnes and her younger brother Dieter orphaned. Frightened, and surrounded by enemies, Agnes has no choice but to carry out her mother?s dying wish, whispered to her before the light flickered from her eyes: Promise you?ll look after your brother for me, Agnes? But when Dieter?s hand slips from her own while crossing a river, the rest of Agnes?s world shatters in an instant?has she truly lost everything? Cambridge, present day. When her beloved grandfather dies, Freya is distraught. Not only has she lost the man who helped raise her, but she knows his stories of World War Two, and a part of her family history, is gone forever. But when Freya meets her new neighbor Agnes, whose accent is just like her grandfather?s, she notices a weather-beaten image of a little blond boy in braces and boots that looks strangely familiar? Could Agnes hold the key to unlocking Freya?s past? But Agnes has terrible secrets of her own, and she vowed never to speak about the little boy in the photograph who risked everything to save her? But if she doesn?t, she might never discover what happened to her little brother all those years ago? 20230930. 1939-1945. 1900-1999. World War, 1939-1945 Refugees Germany Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Poland Prusy Królewskie Fiction. Siblings Fiction. Grandfathers Death Fiction. Grandparent and child. Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Refugees. fast Grandfathers fast Death. Grandfathers. fast Grandparent and child. fast Family secrets. fast Siblings. fast Prusy Królewskie (Poland) History 20th century Fiction. Cambridge (England) Fiction. Germany. fast England fast Cambridge. Poland fast Prusy Królewskie. Fiction. fast Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. fast Domestic fiction. fast History. fast TXGOR