Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside, but when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn't waste a minute—she sneaks out to join him.
Enjoy our presentation of The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley and published by Dial Press. Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside, but when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn't waste a minute—she sneaks out to join him.
The War That Saved My Life has won numerous awards, including a John Newbery Medal in 2016, a Newbery Honor and was named an E.B. White Read Aloud Honor Book.
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