![]() ![]() In September 1939, the British government begins to evacuate children in urban areas of England during World War II to escape, sending them to the countryside. She is used as a servant, cooks and takes care of her six-year-old brother Jamie and her mother. As a regular punishment, Ada gets put in a damp cabinet under the sink where cockroaches live. Her physically abusive, widowed mother is too embarrassed to let her go outside because of her clubfoot, even though she claims Ada is mentally disabled instead. ![]() Plot Īda Smith is a ten-year-old girl who has never left her apartment in London. ![]() In 2016, it was a Newbery Honor Book and was named to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Books of the Year List with an "Outstanding Merit" distinction and won the Committee's Josette Frank Award for fiction. The War That Saved My Life, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, is a 2015 children’s historical novel published by Dial Books for Young Readers. ![]()
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