Words On Fire

A couple weeks ago I finished Words On Fire by Jennifer Neilson. It is a great book about the Russian ban on the Lithuanian culture, books, and language in 1893. Audra has to flee from her one home and starts smuggling Lithuanian books. It is hard to smuggle illegal books normally but when the Cossacks already took your parents away to prison for the same thing it is harder than usual. Audra has to find a way to keep her country's books but she also wants to get her parents back. Words on Fire is a exciting book that everyone should read.

If you have already read Words on Fire I love the Alan Gratz books about World War 2. All of the Alan Gratz books are told from someone with a different life. An American soldier, a Jewish boy who goes through 10 concentration

camps, a german boy that has to become a soldier but as he does he becomes a spy, or a boy from Okinawa who is given 2 grenades one to kill an American and one to kill himself. These books all teach new great lessons that are important in every day life.

Words On Fire and all of the Alan Gratz books will show you how hard life would be if your culture is being torn away.