The red ribbon
Adlington, Lucy2017
Book
As fourteen-year-old Ella begins her first day at work she steps into a world of silks, seams, scissors, pins, hems and trimmings. She is a dressmaker, but this is no ordinary sewing workshop. Hers are no ordinary clients. Ella has joined the seamstresses of Birkenau-Auschwitz, as readers may recognise it. Every dress she makes could mean the difference between life and death. And this place is all about survival. Ella seeks refuge from this reality, and from haunting memories, in her work and in the world of fashion and fabrics. She is faced with painful decisions about how far she is prepared to go to survive. Is her love of clothes and creativity nothing more than collaboration with her captors, or is it a means of staying alive? Will she fight for herself alone, or will she trust the importance of an ever-deepening friendship with Rose?. Age 13+
Main title:
The red ribbon / by Lucy Adlington.
Author:
Adlington, Lucy, author
Work:
Imprint:
London Hot Key Books 2017.©2017.
Collation:
293 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
'Every dress she makes could mean the difference between life and death.' - cover.
Audience:
Interest age level: Age 13+.
ISBN:
9781471406560 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
Birkenau (Concentration camp) -- Young adult fictionDressmakers -- Young adult fictionFriendship -- Young adult fictionHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Young adult fictionWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Young adult fictionWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Young adult fictionHistorical fictionYoung adult fiction
BRN:
11775