Ashes

Berlin, 1932: In many ways thirteen-year old, Gabriella Schramm lives a charmed, carefree life. She loves her sister, Ulla. She loves her new literature teacher. She loves her family's summer lake house, next door to Albert Einstein's. And most of all she loves books. But soon she begins losing all these things, one by one, as Hitler nonstoppably climbs to power. People Gaby thought she could trust turn out to be Nazis. Many of her friends are fleeing, or worse, being taken away. And there's something troubling about Ulla's boyfriend that Gaby can't quite figure out. As always, she turns to her books for comfort - but even those are disappearing. How can Gaby say good bye to the way of life hat she loves?