The Road Beyond Ruin WPL111325

The Road Beyond Ruin WPL111325For some people in post World War II Germany, the battle is not over. August 1945. As Stefano, an Italian POW, heads toward home across war ravaged Germany, he encounters a young child beside his dead mother. Unable to leave him to an unknown fate, Stefano takes the boy with him, finding refuge in a seemingly abandoned house in a secluded woodland. But the house is far from vacant. Stefano wakes at the arrival of its owner, Erich, a former German

Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers (July 7

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