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Westfallen (Westfallen series)

Ann Brashares and Ben Brashares

Ages: 12+

Published: 2024

Publisher: Simon & Schuster BFYR/S & S

ISBN: 978-1-6659-5081-7

Keywords: Science Fiction-Time Travel, Radios, African Americans, Jewish Americans, Biracial D-Day, Nazis, Dystopia

Three children in 2023, able to communicate with three children in 1944, share information about World War II, changing the outcome. Can they reverse what they have done?