Waiting for the Storks
Katrina Nannestad
Waiting for the Storks
Katrina Nannestad
I don’t want to remember the truck, or the night I was taken, or the family I left behind. I am not a sad Polish girl. I am a good and happy German girl. I am. I am. I am.
It’s the Second World War and Himmler’s Lebensborn Program is in full flight when eight-year-old Zofia Ulinski is kidnapped by the Germans. She has blonde hair and blue eyes, just like the other Polish children taken from their families and robbed of their names, their language, their heritage.
But when Zofia is adopted into a wealthy and loving German family, it is easier, it is safer to bury her past, deep down, so everything is forgotten. Until the Polish boy arrives. And the past comes back to haunt her.
From Katrina Nannestad, multi-award-winning author of We Are Wolves and Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief, comes a story about family lost and found, and the choices we make when we don’t have a choice at all.
Review
Celeste Deliyiannis
I could talk about how much I adore Katrina Nannestad’s work all day. Profound, emotional and gripping, Nannestad’s writing is also sensitive enough to depict the darkest parts of history in a way that is appropriate for children without holding back.
Though Waiting for the Storks is Nannestad’s third novel set during the horror of the Second World War, it is a unique and powerful story with something new to offer. Zofia Ulinski is a proud Polish girl living under Nazi occupation, when she is kidnapped by German soldiers and forced to abandon her heritage, her family, her language and her home, and ‘become’ German. This provides her some protection from the war, but when she meets and befriends a young Polish boy, her memories of life in Poland come crashing back, and Zofia must figure out who she is, and more importantly, who she wants to be. For ages 11+.
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