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I don't know when I started reading books about the Holocaust.  It may have started with The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom in 6th or 7th grade.  Since then I have read many, many books.  At times I have felt weird about it - it's not that I "like" them or 'enjoy" them - it's just that the stories of survival are so powerful and the rest is so horrifying.  Maybe it's that in reading about it I honor the memory and in my own small way keep it alive with the thought of Never Again!  Because there are those who deny it happened...  those who think we shouldn't talk about it - and that is while we still have survivors among us, what happens when they are gone.  And I will say I am proud that the stories of other people impacted are being told as well - intolerance of any kind is wrong.

On the surface this may seem silly - the cover certainly doesn't reveal the depth and power of this.  I love how the book was inspired by the paper clip project in Tennessee and that it also went in a different direction.  I strongly encourage readers to journey with Link, Dana and the others in this unique story.