Girl In The Blue Coat By Monica Hesse
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Web ID: 4830917Awesome book
I was given this book from my daughter in law. Awesome book this book will make you think. Could you do what the characters did.
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good book
This book was wonderfully written. The way the girl started out with certain thoughts about Hitler but changed throughout the book. The friendships that build throughout the book is quite interesting. The describing words and the imagery in the book is extraodinary you can easily picture on where the characters are throughout the book. The ending to the book is not what you expect or think from the beginning of the book. The historical facts and times in the book are very helpful.
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Beautifully Hearbroken
Title: Girl in the Blue Coat Author: Monica Hesse Release Date: April 5th, 2016 Page Count: 321 Format: Audiobook Start Date: April 10th, 2022 Finish Date: April 10th, 2022 Rating: 5 Stars Review: This isn't the first book I have read by this author. They Went Left was the first one I read. I read this one with a group of people. I really enjoyed it very much. It was as emotionally gripping. Once I realized she was the author of They Went Left, I totally understood that. I actually learned a lot about the time period this is set in. It's been a year, so I can't really remember the names, but I remember the story itself. I remember the woman who was looking for a girl for a person she made deliveries to. She was part of a resistance group. The whole group was so brave. Especially the one that was gay and in a relationship in secret. I recommend this book. I plan to read other books by this author as well.
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Escape Reading Slumps with this Book!
“I would care that someone understood we were flawed and scarred and doing the best we could in this war. We were wrapped up in things that were so much bigger than ourselves. We didn't know. We didn't mean to. It wasn't our fault.” I loved this book because I forgot I was reading. I have read it multiple times, and it got me back into reading after years of not reading. The storytelling is impressive, and I also enjoyed the mystery aspect. It is one of the best historical fiction books set during WWII because it is well-researched and shows the war from a different side than we usually hear about.
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Inspiring story of young heroism!
Hanneke lives in Holland with her mother and father. She’s a young woman who has lost her boyfriend in the war, who works as the undertaker’s receptionist and also helps the undertaker with black market dealings. Her jobs support her family. On one of her deliveries, an elderly woman confides in Hanneke that she’d been hiding a Jewish teenage girl, in her home, in a secret compartment behind her pantry. The girl is missing and there’s no evidence of how she left the house. The woman pleads for Hanneke to help her find the teenage girl, Mirjam. Hanneke reluctantly agrees to help so she starts searching for any information she can find on Mirjam. As she’s searching, she inadvertently ends up at a resistance group meeting and becomes accidentally involved in a delivery of a Jewish baby, to an adoptive family, after the baby’s family had been detained by the Nazis. Hanneke learns about all of the ways that young adults around her have been helping with the resistance and she sees how selfish she was by keeping to herself and not becoming involved but that changes during her search for Mirjam. The young adults work together to find Mirjam and help everyone they can in this inspiring story of young heroism and perseverance. A wonderful character building historical fiction book, 4 stars!
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Good and bad points
Book review Girl in the blue coat by: Monica Hesse Hi, first I’ll give you some background on me so you can understand my perspective as the reader. I’m a sophomore in high school, I’m 15 and read this book for an English project. I absolutely love a good WWII book historical fiction is my absolute jam. So I chose this book because it seemed to check all the box’s a had for a book I would truly enjoy reading. This book had many bad and good aspects. I would recommend this book but probably for someone of a younger age 7-9th grade seems a good fit. It would be a good book for anyone else as a shorter read but not if your goal is to dive in and really get some good characters and development. While there is development it’s not to the degree I would like to see you’ll find out more in a second as to why I think so. I would first like to address my complaints with the book since it seems to be longer than my complements of it. I mentioned the character development as not to my liking you might be asking why? Well you see Hanneke is the only character where we see any true development and change in her view point. Also the development wasn’t gradual it was very abrupt and more of an ah ha moment then a true change in her view point and personal character. She goes and sees the theater and suddenly she’s all for the reactants it was just to abrupt for my liking. But Olile does help her develop in some ways. But the whole book just seems as though she’s grieving over Bas her boyfriend who went off to war and never came home than growing and being less codependent on a boy whom is dead and wasn’t all that great when he was alive. I understands he loved him but her whole character it’s only about him not her own aspirations. This book does also have parts that I did enjoy. One of these parts is the relationships between the characters. Hanneke’s relationship with her father is one I quite like. Also her job and role in her society she does what she needs to take care of her and her family. The idea of her world seems simple but ends up being much more to everything. Her flirting with the officers is what originally pulled me into the book it added a sense of rebellion and risk which you’ll see more in the book. Overall it’s a solid book. I did like it but I wasn’t head over heels in love with it. Hope this was helpful.
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Just read the first chapter
When I read The War Outside, there was a chapter from Girl in the Blue Coat there so I decided to read it and I was hooked. I will admit that it is not as good as the other two books by Monica Hesse, but it is still pretty good. It’s about a girl who was searching for a missing Jew who was in hiding. It does have an interesting plot twist but the plot twist is kind of just revealed through a character explaining it instead of other literary methods. Overall I’m going to give this 4 stars
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Plot twists everywhere!
I loved this book so much. I couldn’t put it down and ended up finishing it in two days. Just when you think you know what is going on something happens that completely changes everything. I promise you, you will never guess the ending!
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