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Silent Unseen, The

Amanda McCrina

Ages: 14+

Published: 2022

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux BFYR/Macmillan

ISBN: 978-0-374-31355-5

Keywords: World War II, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Resistance movements;

In 1944, Maria, a Polish escapee from the Nazis, saves Kostya from the Soviet police. Then she learns he is a Ukrainian resistance fighter, and thus, the enemy.