The Gustav Sonata Andre Norton Award Nominee (2016) Their step-mother Topaz has habit

Their step-mother Topaz has habit of striding through the countryside wearing only her wellington boots

Life as Wednesday’s bodyguard

When left to its own devices

when lives are at stake: What would you sacrifice for the people you love

concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world through the arrival of aggressive

The Gustav Sonata Andre Norton Award Nominee (2016) Their step-mother Topaz has habitGustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he lives alone with Emilie, the mother he adores but who treats him with bitter severity. He begins an intense friendship with a Jewish boy his age, talented and mercurial Anton Zweibel, a budding concert pianist. Moving backward to the war years and the painful repercussions of an act of conscience, and forward