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This Rebel Heart
Katherine Locke
Ages: 14+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf/Random House Children's Books/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-593-38124-3
Keywords: Hungary - History, Holocaust - Jewish, Antisemitism, Resistance, Kabbalah, Gender fluidity, fantasy, magical realism, golems
Csilla and her aunt, Holocaust survivors in 1956 Budapest, Hungary, must battle for freedom or flee. Csilla fights alongside a student revolutionary and the Angel of Death. Elements of Jewish folklore.