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The Extra

The Extra

by Kathryn Lasky (Author)

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    Paperback 2015

    $3.35
Synopsis

In this chilling but ultimately uplifting novel, Kathryn Lasky imagines a story of survival unlike any other. A deeply moving and unique story of survival by the award-winning writer Kathryn Lasky. One ordinary afternoon, fifteen-year-old Lilo and her family are suddenly picked up by Hitler's police and imprisoned. Just when it seems certain that they will be sent to a labour camp, Lilo is chosen by filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to work as a film extra. Life on the film set is a bizarre alternate reality and the beautiful, charming Riefenstahl is always present. But Riefenstahl also answers the slightest provocation with malice and flaunts the power to assign prisoners to life or death.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 07 May 2015
ISBN 10: 1406358630
ISBN 13: 9781406358636
Children’s book age: 12+ Years

Media Reviews
This compelling coming-of-age novel takes young teenager Lilo, a Gypsie in 1940s Austria, through the Second World War, from which she emerges sadder, stronger and strangely optimistic about the future [...] Woven into the struggle for everyday existence is the subtly portrayed deepening relationship between the two adolescents, which even survives their separation. * Inis Reading Guide *
Author Bio
People often ask Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky how and why she writes both fiction and nonfiction. The author, who has written more than forty books, answers, I am equally attracted to both types of writing because for me the most important thing is if a story is real. Real stories can be either fiction or nonfiction. I am sure a lot of folks must think I'm rather scattered doing all these different books, Kathryn Lasky admits. But to me, the whole part of being an artist is to get up every morning and reinvent the world. Kathryn Lasky and her husband live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.