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Catherine's War

Julia Billet

Illustrator: Claire Fauvel

Ages: 12+

Published: 2020

Publisher: HarperAlley/HarperCollins Children's Books

ISBN: 978-0-06-291560-3

Keywords: Jewish Children, French Resistance, Nazis, World War II 1939-1945--Fiction, France History--German Occupation 1939-1945--Fiction

To survive in France in 1942, Jewish Rachel becomes Catherine and moves around the country photographing everything she sees. Subtle ink and watercolor panels.