Orphan Monster Spy

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Sarah me ha encantado, una niña muy fuerte e inteligente, a la que en ocasiones le sobrepasan las situaciones a las que se enfrenta pero se recompone y actúa con una habilidad increíble, lo menos que me gusta es la dureza con la que se habla a sí misma (usando las palabras de su Mutti). Por otro lado el personaje del capitán también es adorable, a su forma y con sus distancias, lo cual es comprensible. En esta novela llegas a sentir pena por muchos personajes, pero especialmente quise saber más sobre Mauser. ¿Qué paso después con ella? The plot was chillingly uncomfortable. A lot of things happens that make you gag. Or chill you to the bone. Would the future Germany have any evidence of its crimes? Would it smell bad and would people even know why?" El libro en sí, me gustó ¿Tuve problemas para terminarlo? Sí; pero no porque me hubiese parecido malo, sino que por momentos se extendía a cosas que no eran relevantes a la trama y eran de puro relleno, por ende, aburrían. Yo creo que lo más destacable de esta historia, es sin lugar a duda la protagonista. Sarah es una chica de quince años que creció demasiado rápido, una chica afectada por la guerra, pero nunca tanto como para arruinar su espíritu. Es una chica que tiene miedo, pero nunca deja que la paralice; es una chica que sabe lo que quiere, pero nunca se olvida de mostrar compasión, y sobre todo, es una chica a la que la vida le pegó mil patadas, pero nunca se rindió. Me parece que Sarah podría ser un gran rol para niñas que están en plena etapa madurativa, por eso, creo yo, que ese es el público ideal para este libro.

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Orphan Monster Spy nos trae la historia de Sarah, una chica judía que trata de escaparse de la Alemania Nazi. En su intento de huida conoce al Capitán, un hombre británico que trabaja en cubierto para los Aliados en el seno del tercer reich: Berlín. A forma de pagar una deuda con la niña, el hombre le ofrece un trabajo como espía ¿La misión? ingresar a un colegio nacional socialista, donde se les enseña a los niños a odiar a los judíos y amar a la patria y al Fuhrer, en busca de una bomba que podría destruir a un país entero. The narrative isn't linear, it jumps around a little between different times in Sarah's life, and I loved how this slowly disclosed her past. It showed why she was so resourceful and skilled already, and sometimes it made my heart ache. That childhood also created a fierce, committed, if not always well-informed, feminist. My father might have been considered a good role model in a bygone age, but his raging patriarchal brand of masculinity left me with no illusions about men. Some strong and fearless sister-figures in early adolescence, plus a General Leia here and a Simone de Beauvoir there, set the tone for my creative life. I embraced the feminine, fell in love with Anne Shirley and the girls of Malory Towers, sought out my own role models and set out to write something worthy of them.

Author Luke Palmer introduces his new book, Play (Firefly Press) about four boys growing up together, the challenges, the friendships, and what hap... In most cases when it’s YA, I can forgive a multitude of sins: Orphan Monster Spy is at once bloody silly and frustratingly entertaining. Let’s just say that bloody silly is the angle I’ll take. To help the captain and his mission, Sarah agrees to go to a girl’s boarding school for the Nazi elite. Her job is to befriend one of the girls, so she can get an invite to her house to discover what her father is up to. And whilst this might sound like a far-fetched idea, according to the author’s notes, almost everything in Orphan, Monster, Spy, has some basis in fact. The idea of using children as spies, agents and soldiers, is not a fanciful one. There were, also, elite Nazi schools known for their brutality. This story had me gripped throughout, not least because a Jewish girl risked her life every day surrounded by the daughters of elite Nazis who would have thrown her to the wolves had they found out who she really was. La historia es bonita, a pesar de lo cruel de las situaciones a las que se enfrenta Sarah siendo tan pequeña. A su vez es sorprendente lo bien que relata la soledad y autonomía a la que se enfrenta el personaje, ya que a pesar de tener al Capitán, el mismo no cubre la figura paterna o de un familiar que le hace falta a Sarah, sino lo he visto casi más como un amigo-adulto. Se observa en la novela la crueldad de la Alemania nazi en su día a día, con una cuidadosa precisión en los detalles, ya que contamos con varios personajes muy observadores.

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As my nephews and eldest son grew up, I was surprised to learn how little they understood the Second World War. They had actually been taught the subject in school, but without those exciting tales of the dauntless so beloved of the 1970s, they hadn’t engaged with it. The nineteenth century historian Lord Macauley said, “History has to be burned into the imagination before it can be received by the reason.”This was one of the reasons to write this book. Sarah intrigued me very much and at times I was very glad she was on "side of the angels" so to speak. A few times she sent a chill down my spine.By the time I finished the final edits, narrow-minded and spiteful nationalism had been normalised, allowing racism and sexism to flourish online, on our streets, in our media and in our politics. We are, right now, looking at the conditions that created the Third Reich and all it will take, to paraphrase Burke, is for good people to do nothing. The winners of The Farshore Reading for Pleasure Teacher Awards 2023, highlighting the work schools are doing to encourage a love of reading, have... So it had potential... the story is fairly interesting and I cared about the characters. However, you’d think a story about espionage in WW2 would be way more exciting and while there are some intense parts... I forgot it’s YA so it mostly focuses on things like school, arguing with adults, main character socializing with other young girls, etc. Also didn’t care for the some of the dialogue. I loved how this story explores the concept of monsters, what it means to be one, how you can go about creating one, and what defines a monster. The school is like a nightmare. Shortlisted for The Branford Boase Award 2019 | Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award 2018 | January 2019 Debut of the Month

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For the most part, the writing is strong. However, whilst it’s clear and relatively fast-paced, the internal dialogue is intrusive and repetitive - the constant reminders of Sarah’s Jewishness in particular. Sure, she must be hyperconscious of the fact, but I as a reader have already grasped that given the historical context. Killeen is clearly intelligent, and this makes the peppering of clunky German phrases and terrible action scenes harder to bear. |Stinging with drama, action and, above all, a relentless sense of urgency, this ruthlessly remarkable debut sees an indomitable Jewess go undercover. The first book we read as part of this book club was Orphan, Monster, Spy by Matt Killeen. I was instantly attracted to this story because it is set during the war; I’m fascinated by stories set in war time and always have been. What’s more, this particular story is set in Germany during the Second World War, so it comes from another perspective. I’ve had a life‐long horrified fascination with WW2, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, partly because I grew up in the war‐mad ‘70s and partly because I knew real‐live Germans who were evidently not the Nazis of the comics. My mother’s best friend was German and I had real problems squaring the lovely, pacifist people I knew with the war stories that made up the majority of the films, comics and TV programmes at the time. As I learned the details of the Holocaust that dichotomy grew more profound and disturbing. I’ve carried this horrified fascination ever since. The whole novel felt electric, and had a very presence that I haven't had from a book in this genre for a good while ( The Color of Secrets and Susanna Kearsley are two that come to mind).Most WWII novels that I read are either focused on the Allies and their efforts, be that spying or fighting or general history, or on the Holocaust and those in prison camps. I find both fiction and non-fiction books on these two topics really interesting, and up to this point, I was happy sort of staying in that lane. I didn't know I was hoping for a book like Orphan Monster Spy until I read it--one that focuses on the war from a completely unique viewpoint, one that doesn't shy away from the brutality and the horrors of the Nazi party just because it's a YA book, one that really makes me hope for a sequel despite the fact that it's going to take me a while to recover from this first one. I was very interested in the history notes at the end though. That was interesting, well written and the best part of this whole thing. Maybe this author should write nonfiction.

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Not quite implausible I suppose, the entire premise is flimsy at best. A German Jewish orphan is recruited by a British agent/spy (agent of what, exactly?) on a complete whim, admitted into a high-ranking Nazi boarding school with a story that doesn’t add up, and tasked with befriending the daughter of an eminent scientist to gain access to his lab notes. H’m. At the same time, I found it satisfying how strong Sarah was in their company. In an ignorant bubble, where they were being taught that an Arian race was supreme and strong, there was Sarah, out thinking, outrunning and outmanoeuvring them at every turn. Sarah, a Jew, someone seen as week and a plague on society. Kendra: I love that scene as well. Matt does such a terrific job of balancing the profound intensity and terror of Sarah’s experience with moments of lightness, and one of my favourite moments in the book is when she’s visiting a wealthy school friend’s home and gets to taste peanut butter for the first time. Later, when everything falls apart and is literally on fire all around her, Sarah grabs the peanut butter to take with her. It reminded me of the classic moment in the film The Godfather when Clemenza says, ‘Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.’ It’s a beautiful humanizing detail in dehumanizing circumstances.A big thank you to Penguin Group and NetGalley for a digital ARC of this YA book about a young girl caught up in trying to prevent the creation of a bomb like the world has never seen. Najlepsza powieść młodzieżowa 2018, która zachwyci także dorosłych, bez dwóch zdań – „Sierota, Bestia, Szpieg” Matta Killeena. Me ha encantado este libro. La verdad es que lo imaginé solo con ver el título. Pero obvien la sinopsis, menos mal que la leí después, como siempre, pero te cuenta la historia al completa, exceptuando el final, por lo que no permite ir adentrándote en las situaciones e intriga. Sarah is a Jewish girl who loses her mother right at the start of the story when they are attempting to escape to Austria. Her mother was an alcoholic, once an actor and performer, but who found herself without a husband, when he left them, and struggling to look after her daughter when she was unable to work.