![]() ![]() It's a difficult chapter in history to talk about, but messages about gratitude, empathy, perseverance, courage, and kindness prevail. The main character as a young teen is separated from her parents and not sure whether they're alive. Characters are in danger of being rounded up by Nazis, or of being reported for harboring Jews, which maintains a sense of scariness and dread throughout. A bully shoves a kid who uses crutches to the ground, and several panels show the bloody nose and blood dripping onto his shirt and jacket. Other violence includes illustrations showing blood on two dead bodies and bullet wounds in the back of civilians fleeing German soldiers. No concentration camps are depicted, but they're mentioned. The Holocaust and the loss of parents and other family and friends are prominent themes. It continues and enlarges a story in Palacio's Auggie & Me about Julian's grandmother and her experience hiding from the Nazis during World War II in France. Parents need to know that White Bird: A Wonder Story is the first graphic novel by R.J. ![]()
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