Monica Hesse

From the bestselling and award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat, comes an extraordinary novel of conviction, friendship, and betrayal, when two teenage girls meet in an American internment camp during WWII. Its 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Coloradountil they were uprooted to dusty Texas, all because of the places their parents once called home: Germany and Japan. Margot and Haruko meet at the high school in Crystal City, a "family internment camp" for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her father, who she knows is keeping something from her. And Margot is doing everything she can to keep her family whole as her mothers health deteriorates and her rational, patriotic father becomes a man who distrusts America and fraternizes with Nazis. With everything around them falling apart, Haruko and Margot find solace in their growing, secret friendship. But in a prison the government has deemed full of spies, can they trust anyoneeven each other?

Perfect for fans of Black Mirror and Warcross, this gripping sequel to Stray finds Lona delving into her past so she can face her future Lona Sixteen Always is about to become Lona Seventeen Always, but she isnt feeling older or wiser. Though she escaped from the Path, the virtual reality experiment in which she was raised, shes learned that real life is full of challenges. Plagued by strange memories and dreams, and feeling pressured by her friends to just be normal, Lona begins to question her own sanity. She suspects that the only way to feel whole is to solve the mystery of her dreams-it almost feels like someones trying to send her a message, but where are the clues pointing? In the bid to find out who she really is, Lona will fall headlong into a trap far more dangerous and cunning than she could ever have imagined. Edgar-award winning master of suspense Monica Hesse brings us a richly imagined speculative world where sought-after answers could cost the asker everything. This ebook includes bonus excerpts from Monica Hesses historical fiction novels Girl in the Blue Coat and The War Outside.

Amsterdam, 1943 Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black-market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the front line when the Germans invaded. She likes to think of her illegal work as a small act of rebellion. But one day Hanneke gets a very unusual request. One of her regular customers asks her to find a girl. A girl who has disappeared from the secret room in her house. A Jewish girl ...As she searches for clues Hanneke is drawn into a dangerous web of lies, secrets and mysteries. Can she find the runaway before the Nazis do? Meticulously researched, intricately plotted and beautifully written, The Girl in the Blue Coat is an extraordinarily gripping novel from a bright new voice in YA fiction. 'A gripping historical mystery' Publishers Weekly, starred review

Perfect for fans of Black Mirror and Warcross, a suspenseful novel that asks what it means to live a life that isnt your own. Lona Sixteen Always has spent most of her life as someone else. Part of a unique virtual reality experiment for troubled kids who have been "rescued" by the government, she spends twenty-three hours a day on the Path, reliving the decades-old, perfectly ordinary memories of a perfectly ordinary boy. Any other life is unimaginable -- until one day someone appears on Lonas screen who doesnt belong: Fenn, a boy from her past, has returned to set her free. Lona is wrenched brutally into an existence that is suddenly all her own, one that promises liberty and love, but also holds threatening secrets. And it turns out that there is a heavy price to pay for straying from her assigned path. In Stray, Edgar-award winning master of suspense Monica Hesse brings us a richly imagined speculative world where there are no easy answers--and no easy way out.

Timely and unforgettable,The Brightwood Code sheds light on hidden history and the brutality of being a woman in a war built by men. The Brightwood Code has everything I love in a book. Stacey Lee, New York Times bestselling author of Reeses Book Club pick The Downstairs Girl Seven months ago, Edda was on the World War I front lines as one of two hundred Hello Girls, female switchboard operators employed by the US Army. She spent her nights memorizing secret connection codes to stay ahead of spying enemies, and her days connecting vital calls between platoons and bases and generals, all trying to surviveand wina brutal war. Their lives were in Eddas hands, and one day, in fateful seconds, everything went wrong. Now, Edda is back in Washington, DC, working as an American Bell Telephone operator, the picture of respectability. But when her shift ends, Edda is barely hanging on, desperate to forget the circumstances that cut her time overseas short. When she receives a panicked phone call from someone who utters the fateful code word Brightwood, Edda has no choice but to confront her past. With precious few clues and help only from Theo, a young man bearing his own WWI scars, Edda races to uncover what secrets may have followed her across the ocean. New York Times bestselling author Monica Hesse delivers a gripping thriller that will leave you guessing until the last page. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Starred reviews from: The Bulletin The Horn Book Publishers Weekly SLJ Page-turning. The Washington Post

Read all three masterworks of historical fiction from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Monica Hesse.In Girl in the Blue Coat, Hanneke navigates Amsterdam at the height of World War II, spending her days procuring and delivering sought-after black market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the Dutch front lines when the Germans invaded. On a routine delivery, a client asks Hanneke for help. Expecting to hear that Mrs. Janssen wants meat or kerosene, Hanneke is shocked by the older womans frantic plea to find a person -- a Jewish teenager Mrs. Janssen had been hiding, who has vanished without a trace. Beautifully written, intricately plotted, and meticulously researched, Girl in the Blue Coat is an extraordinary novel about bravery, grief, and love in impossible times.In The War Outside, World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. The war seems far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado -- until they are uprooted to Crystal City, Texas, a "family internment camp," all because of the places their parents once called home: Germany and Japan. With everything around them falling apart, Margot and Haruko find solace in their growing, secret friendship. But in a prison the government has deemed full of spies, can they trust anyone -- even each other?In They Went Left, eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman has barely begun to heal from the horrors of the Holocaust. Three years ago, she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else -- her parents, her grandmother, radiant Aunt Maja -- they went left. Zofias last words to her brother were a promise: Abek to Zofia, A to Z. When I find you again, we will fill our alphabet. Now her journey to fulfill that vow takes her through Poland and Germany, and into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past. But the deeper Zofia digs, the more impossible her search seems. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing? In the rubble of a broken continent, Zofia must delve into a mystery whose answers could break her -- or help her rebuild her world.

A beautiful combination of heartbreak, loss, young love, and hope."Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Mystery Novel Historical fiction powerhouse Monica Hesses extraordinary novel about a teenage girl in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam speaks powerfully to the realities of grief, heartbreak, and bravery, perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys and Kristin Hannah. Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering black market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the Dutch front lines when the Germans invaded. She likes to think of her illegal work as a small act of rebellion. On a routine delivery, a client asks Hanneke for help. Expecting to hear that Mrs. Janssen wants meat or kerosene, Hanneke is shocked by the older womans frantic plea to find a persona Jewish teenager Mrs. Janssen had been hiding, who has vanished without a trace from a secret room. Hanneke initially wants nothing to do with such dangerous work, but is ultimately drawn into a web of mysteries and stunning revelations that lead her into the heart of the resistance, open her eyes to the horrors of the Nazi war machine, and compel her to take desperate action. Beautifully written, intricately plotted, and meticulously researched, Girl in the Blue Coat is an exceptional novel about courage, grief, and love in impossible times.

Booklist Bookpage The Bulletin Publishers Weekly Shelf Awareness SLC SLJ CRUCIAL. The New York Times Book Review In the rubble of a broken continent, a girl must solve a mystery whose answers could rebuild her familyor break her completely, in this New York Times bestselling, critically acclaimed tour de force historical novel from Monica Hesse, author of Girl in the Blue Coat. Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp say the war is over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal, her mind feels broken. And her life is completely shattered: Three years ago, she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone elseher parents, her grandmother, radiant Aunt Majathey went left. Zofias last words to her brother were a promise: Abek to Zofia, A to Z. When I find you again, we will fill our alphabet. Now her journey to fulfill that vow takes her through Poland and Germany, into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past: Miriam, desperately searching for the twin she was separated from after they survived medical experimentation. Breine, a former heiress, who now longs only for a simple wedding with her new fiance. And Josef, who guards his past behind a wall of secrets, and is beautiful and strange and magnetic all at once. But the deeper Zofia digs, the more impossible her search seems. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing? This is not just a story about death and survivalits also about choosing to live on, even in the face of genocide, trauma and devastating loss. And what could be more relevant to our world today? Sharon Cameron, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Light in Hidden Places, writing in The New York Times"A heartbreaking, gorgeously written story...The ending left me breathless and awed by its expression of enduring love."Jewell Parker Rhodes, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Boys

Todos tenemos un abecedario que llenarAlemania, 1945. Aunque el campo de concentración de Gross-Rosen fue liberado, para Zofia Lederman las heridas que le dejó la guerra (tanto en su cuerpo como en su mente) no han sanado. Tres años antes, ella y su hermano menor, Abek, fueron los unicos integrantes de su familia a los que enviaron a la derecha; es decir, lejos de las camaras de gas de Auschwitz-Birkenau. Todos los demas, sus padres, su abuela, su radiante tia, se fueron a la izquierda. Antes de que los nazis los separaran, los hermanos alcanzaron a hacerse una promesa:-De Abek a Zofia. -De la A a la Z. -Cuando vuelva a verte encontraremos nuestro abecedario. Estaremos completos, y todo estara bien. Te prometo que te encontrare.Pero hallar a un niño en un mar de desaparecidos no es tarea facil, y las pesquisas llevaran a Zofia a un campamento de sobrevivientes donde todos intentan dejar atras un pasado doloroso y labrarse un nuevo futuro. Entre los escombros de un continente roto, Zofia debe profundizar en un misterio cuyas respuestas podrian romperla o ayudarla a reconstruir su mundo.

Todos tenemos un abecedario que llenarAlemania, 1945. Aunque el campo de concentración de Gross-Rosen fue liberado, para Zofia Lederman las heridas que le dejó la guerra (tanto en su cuerpo como en su mente) no han sanado. Tres años antes, ella y su hermano menor, Abek, fueron los unicos integrantes de su familia a los que enviaron a la derecha; es decir, lejos de las camaras de gas de Auschwitz-Birkenau. Todos los demas, sus padres, su abuela, su radiante tia se fueron a la izquierda. Antes de que los nazis los separaran, los hermanos alcanzaron a hacerse una promesa:-De Abek a Zofia. -De la A a la Z. -Cuando vuelva a verte encontraremos nuestro abecedario. Estaremos completos, y todo estara bien. Te prometo que te encontrare.Pero hallar a un niño en un mar de desaparecidos no es tarea facil, y las pesquisas llevaran a Zofia a un campamento de sobrevivientes donde todos intentan dejar atras un pasado doloroso y labrarse un nuevo futuro. Entre los escombros de un continente roto, Zofia debe profundizar en un misterio cuyas respuestas podrian romperla o ayudarla a reconstruir su mundo.

La jeune fille qui a disparu est juive. Il faut que tu la retrouves avant les nazis. Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke sillonne à vélo les rues de la ville afin de se procurer au marché noir les marchandises

Amsterdam, 1943 Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black-market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the front line when the Germans invaded. She likes to think of her illegal work as a small act of rebellion. But one day Hanneke gets a very unusual request. One of her regular customers asks her to find a girl. A girl who has disappeared from the secret room in her house. A Jewish girl . . .As she searches for clues Hanneke is drawn into a dangerous web of lies, secrets and mysteries. Can she find the runaway before the Nazis do?Meticulously researched, intricately plotted and beautifully written, The Girl in the Blue Coat is the extraordinarily gripping novel from Monica Hesse.A gripping historical mysteryPublishers Weekly, starred review

La guerre est finie pour tout le monde. Sauf pour Zofia.Allemagne, 1945. Zofia, Juive polonaise de 18 ans, a survécu au pire. Réchappée des camps, elle a vu toute sa famille exterminée, à lexception

Washington, 1918. Les secrets de guerre ne meurent jamais. Edda, ancienne opératrice téléphonique, pensait avoir laissé ses démons derrière elle, jusquà ce quun mystérieux appel ravive son passé...Dé

Una novela de misterio ambientada en la Segunda Guerra Mundial con un profundo mensaje sobre justicia social, racismo y prejuicios, amor, amistad y valentía.#lachicadelabrigoazulNovela finalista del 2017 Indies Choice Awards de la American Booksellers AssociationAmsterdam, 1943. La joven Hanneke se dedica a comprar y vender todo lo que encuentra en el mercado negro, a escondidas de sus padres. Es su manera de rebelarse ante la ocupacion alemana y sobrellevar la perdida de su novio en el frente. Pero su vida da un giro cuando una de sus clientas le hace un encargo inusitado: que localice a una chica judia que mantenia oculta y que ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro.Tiene que dar con ella antes de que la encuentren los nazis.Un relato conmovedor e inolvidable de valentia, dolor y amor en tiempos imposibles. Basada en una meticulosa documentacion, La chica del abrigo azul es una extraordinaria y cautivadora novela de una de las nuevas voces de la ficcion historica.Reseñas: Un mosaico de culpabilidad y aceptacion, de responsabilidades crecientes y de reacio heroismo, el alcance de la mayoria de edad de Hanneke en dolorosas condiciones es un recordatorio de como la guerra consume y transforma las pasiones de la vida cotidiana. Cada desgarradora escena de esta hermosa novela es conmovedora y potente, y todas y cada una de sus palabras hacen que la historia parezca verdadera. Elizabeth Wein, autora de Nombre en clave: VerityUna de las mejores historias que hemos leido en esta ultima temporada. No te la puedes perder. Blog Enterate de lo ultimoUno de los puntos fuertes ha sido como la autora ha sabido narrar la accion, de una forma directa y dejando pequeñas pistas, para que llegado el final todas las piezas encajaran. Ha sabido captar mi interes, que quisiera saber si llegarian encontrara Mirjam, que paso entre Hanneke y su mejor amiga y como acabarian las cosas para su grupo de amigos, metiendo algunos momentos de tension de por medio que han hecho que me preocupara por sus personajes y quisiera saber mas sobre ellos. Genial. Blog Perdida en un mundo de librosUn relato sobre el amor, la amistad, la valentia y el dolor totalmente absorbente. Una historia llena de emociones y con personajes tan humanos que sera dificil olvidar. Alexandra M.J. Blackburn en ¿Donde esta mi lapiz?

Una novela de misterio ambientada en la Segunda Guerra Mundial con un profundo mensaje sobre justicia social, racismo y prejuicios, amor, amistad y valentía. #lachicadelabrigoazul Novela finalista del 2017 Indies Choice Awards de la American Booksellers Association Amsterdam, 1943. La joven Hanneke se dedica a comprar y vender todo lo que encuentra en el mercado negro, a escondidas de sus padres. Es su manera de rebelarse ante la ocupacion alemana y sobrellevar la perdida de su novio en el frente. Pero su vida da un giro cuando una de sus clientas le hace un encargo inusitado: que localice a una chica judia que mantenia oculta y que ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro. Tiene que dar con ella antes de que la encuentren los nazis. Un relato conmovedor e inolvidable de valentia, dolor y amor en tiempos imposibles. Basada en una meticulosa documentacion, La chica del abrigo azul es una extraordinaria y cautivadora novela de una de las nuevas voces de la ficcion historica.Reseñas:Un mosaico de culpabilidad y aceptacion, de responsabilidades crecientes y de reacio heroismo, el alcance de la mayoria de edad de Hanneke en dolorosas condiciones es un recordatorio de como la guerra consume y transforma las pasiones de la vida cotidiana. Cada desgarradora escena de esta hermosa novela es conmovedora y potente, y todas y cada una de sus palabras hacen que la historia parezca verdadera.Elizabeth Wein, autora de Nombre en clave: VerityUna de las mejores historias que hemos leido en esta ultima temporada. No te la puedes perder.Blog Enterate de lo ultimo Uno de los puntos fuertes ha sido como la autora ha sabido narrar la accion, de una forma directa y dejando pequeñas pistas, para que llegado el final todas las piezas encajaran. Ha sabido captar mi interes, que quisiera saber si llegarian encontrara Mirjam, que paso entre Hanneke y su mejor amiga y como acabarian las cosas para su grupo de amigos, metiendo algunos momentos de tension de por medio que han hecho que me preocupara por sus personajes y quisiera saber mas sobre ellos. Genial.Blog Perdida en un mundo de libros Un relato sobre el amor, la amistad, la valentia y el dolor totalmente absorbente. Una historia llena de emociones y con personajes tan humanos que sera dificil olvidar.Alexandra M.J. Blackburn en ¿Donde esta mi lapiz?