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    Night Witches: A Novel of World War II
    Night Witches: A Novel of World War II
    Night Witches: A Novel of World War II
    Audiobook6 hours

    Night Witches: A Novel of World War II

    Written by Kathryn Lasky

    Narrated by Ilyana Kadushin

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    About this audiobook

    From best-selling and award-winning author Kathryn Lasky comes an explosive adventure following the teen girl fighter pilots who took on Hitler's army . . . and won.

    15-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. She's a pilot who's always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on earth. But since the Germans surrounded Stalingrad, Valya's been forced to stay on the ground and watch her city crumble.

    When her mother is killed during the siege, Valya is left with one burning desire: to join up with her older sister, a member of the famous and feared Night Witches-a brigade of young female pilots.

    Using all her wits, Valya manages to get past the German blockage and find the Night Witches' base . . . and that's when the REAL danger starts. The women have been assigned a critical mission. If they succeed, they'll inflict serious damage on the Nazis. If they fail, they'll face death . . . or even worse horrors.

    Historical fiction master Lasky sheds light on the war's unsung heroes-daredevil girls who took to the skies to fight for their country-in an action-packed thrill ride that'll leave you electrified and breathless.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScholastic
    Release dateMar 28, 2017
    ISBN9781338119473
    Night Witches: A Novel of World War II
    Author

    Kathryn Lasky

    Kathryn Lasky is a New York Times bestselling author of many children’s and young adult books, which include her Tangled in Time series; her bestselling series Guardians of Ga’Hoole, which was made into the Warner Bros. movie Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole; and her picture book Sugaring Time, awarded a Newbery Honor. She has twice won the National Jewish Book Award, for her novel The Night Journey and her picture book Marven of the Great North Woods. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband. kathrynlasky.com

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    • 5/5
      16-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. She's a pilot who's always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on earth. But since the Germans surrounded Stalingrad, Valya's been forced to stay on the ground and watch her city crumble.When her mother is killed during the siege, Valya is left with one burning desire: to join up with her older sister, a member of the famous and feared Night Witches-a brigade of young female pilots.Using all her wits, Valya manages to get past the German blockade and find the Night Witches' base . . . and that's when the REAL danger starts. The women have been assigned a critical mission. If they succeed, they'll inflict serious damage on the Nazis. If they fail, they'll face death . . . or even worse horrors.
    • 5/5
      After the Germans invaded Russia and surrounded Stalingrad, 16-year-old pilot, Valya, is "grounded" and can no longer do what she loves to do most -- fly. However, when her mother is killed during the siege of her city Valya knows what she must do, escape Stalingrad and join up with her older sister, a member of the famous Nigth Witches, a regimen of all women pilots, and help in the war efforts. Valya makes it past the German blockade and locates the Night Witches' secret base. As she arrives, the Witches have just been given orders to fly a critical mission that will inflict serious damage to the Nazis, but Valya's sister goes missing and she is torn between loyalty to country and loyalty to family. Lasky's action-packed historical novel will not disappoint you. For 6-12 grades.
    • 1/5
      I wanted to like this book so badly but I'm ditching it after 10 pages for complete unbelievability. A YA novel about the night witches (young Russian women who flew very old planes on bombing runs against the Germans during WWII) should have been completely in my wheel house. But the writing was questionable from the off-set. I found it difficult to believe that in 1940s Russia a house would have so much American literature in it (The Wizard of Oz and Huckleberry Finn are name checked). Plus the central character refers to the German invasion of Russia as Operation Barbarossa while it's still happening. I can't imagine a character living in the midst of a campaign knows its code name . Plus there was a typo in those first 10 pages (a copy editing issue, I know, but it still sets my teeth on edge). So with all of that combined I am ditching this book forthwith and not even giving it the full Nancy Pearl rule. The title might be more acceptable to its target audience (I'd say tweens rather than teens) but this grown-up just can't make herself read it.