The Stolen Ones
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Stolen Ones
By (Author) Vanessa Curtis
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Usborne Publishing Ltd
18th March 2019
7th February 2019
United Kingdom
Classifications
Young Adult
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Adoption / fostering
Childrens / Teenage social topics: War and conflict issues
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism and anti-racism
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Dating, relationships, romance a
823.92
Short-listed for Hounslow Teen Reads Award 2020
Physical Properties
Paperback
352
Width 145mm, Height 205mm, Spine 23mm
290g
Description
My name is Inge. I am sixteen. I live with Mama and Papa in Munich. Food is still rationed, though the war ended over ten years ago. My boyfriend is Jewish. I have to hide this from my parents. I think they are hiding something from me, too. Letters arrive every year on my birthday, but they are not addressed to me. They are for a girl named Kasia. This is her story.'Powerful and harrowing' Mail on Sunday'A haunting beauty of a novel' Irish Times
Reviews
A future classic. * Gazette & Herald *
A haunting beauty of a novel. * The Irish Times *
Powerful and harrowing * Mail on Sunday *
This book just blew me away when I finished reading it. * The Strawberry Post *
Author Bio
Vanessa Curtis is the award-winning author of YA novels including Zelah Green (winner of Manchester Children's Book Award/shortlisted for Waterstones Children's Book Prize) and The Earth is Singing (longlisted for the Carnegie, winner of the Young Quills Award). Her journalism and book reviews have appeared in the Times, TLS, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Independent, Guardian, Telegraph, Herald and Scotland on Sunday newspapers and she runs her own literary consultancy as well as consulting for Cornerstones.
