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Dec 17, 2009

Elizabeth rated it:

Don't blink or you'll miss it. The arrival of a noteworthy work of historical fiction for kids tends to work one of two ways. Either the marketing machine behind the book hits bookstores and libraries full-force, cramming said book down everyone's throats until they yield and make it a bestseller/award winner... or nothing happens at all. The book slips onto shelves without so much as a squeak, never insisting that anyone go out of their way to find it. "Someone Named Eva" belongs firm More...

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Mar 05, 2008

Christina rated it:

I heard so many good things about this book, and I wanted to really love it. I liked it. It was a compelling, personal narrative about a little known atrocity perpetrated against a village in Czechoslovakia. I would give it more like 3.5 stars.
Milada is taken from her family because is looks like the aryan ideal. Most of the other women and girls her age are sent to a work camp for the duration of the war, but Milada is sent for Germanification education in Poland. She is eventually adop More...

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Jan 07, 2009

Sara rated it:

4, possibly 4.5 stars. Though this book is short, it definitely makes an impact. The cover is what made me pick it up at the library, but the story is extremely well written and fascinating: Milada, a young Czech girl, is taken in 1942 by the Nazis and, because of her Aryan features, sent to a "reeducation camp" training her how to be a good German girl so she can be adopted into a German family and later become a German wife and mother. The characters in here are all fictional, but More...

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Jan 06, 2012

05meganb rated it:

I think it's a sad book, Milada's been gone for three years being called Eva by Germans. The problem in the story is that one day Nazis gathered up everyone in her town and separated the boys from girls. The girls went to a gym while the Nazis looked at them to see if the had blond hair and light colored eyes. Milada has both of them so she was taken to a camp where other girls from Poland were. They had to learn German and the ways they think and act. She really wants the war to end and for her More...

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Jul 30, 2011

Monica! rated it:

So guys. I have added a new item to my list of Things That Would Be Really, Really Terrifying To Have Happen To You When You’re Eleven, namely “Be stolen from your family because you have blonde hair and blue eyes, and ‘Germanized’ in an abusive Polish school so that you are a perfect little Nazi child and can be adopted by a German mutter and vater and, eventually, birth the children of the new Aryan nation.” Because between the brainwashing, and the constant fear that you won’t measure up an More...

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May 03, 2011

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Someone named Eva was a great read about a young girl who lost her family during the Holocaust. In some parts of the story it had me stop and think about how that felt and what it looked like to be there in Milada's situation. Also at some points I thought ‘’wow Milada’s pretty stupid for doing that’’. What I don’t understand is why Hitler would put non Jewish people in the concentration camps. The end of the story was summed up good though Milada reunited with her mother but her father, brother More...

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Oct 27, 2010

Kristin rated it:

I have read numerous books about the Holocaust. Generally, the young adult books I've read are about Jewish survivors. Someone Named Eva is a book about a Catholic survivor. Malida is a Catholic Czech living in the village of Lidice. Czechoslovakia was under Nazi reign and assigned a "protector", Reinhard Heydrich. At the end of May, 1942 resistance fighters attempted to assassinate Heydrich. Their attempt was successfully in that Heydrich died of wounds he received a few days af More...

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Mar 21, 2010

El rated it:

A little reality back-story for those of you who don't know the history of Lidice in the Czech Republic. By the late Thirties, when it was still Czechoslovakia, Hitler was in control of the country. He put his favorite wing-man, Reinhard Heydrich, in charge of Czechoslovakia, then called the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia under Nazi rule; he was referred to by locals as the "butcher of Prague". Not a nice man, this one. Some resistance fighters swooped in to try to assassinate More...

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Jan 19, 2010

Erin rated it:

This is a youth fiction book, but we read it outloud as we traveled to Las Vegas for Christmas. It tells a story based on actual events in Czechoslovakia during World War II, that I had never known about. The Nazis destroyed the small city of Lidice as revenge for an assassination of a Nazi leader by a group of rebels believed to be from Lidice. They lined up and killed every man and boy, and sent all of the women and most of the children to work camps where the majority of them died of starv More...

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Oct 03, 2009

Barbara rated it:

A young girl is forced to go with her family from their home in Czechoslovakia to a holding area to await deportation to concentration and work camps. Milada is separated from her family and sent to a center for retraining as a German girl. She is renamed Eve and "forced: to abandon all of her former culture and identity to become the bright future of the aryan nation. She is eventually adopted by high ranking Nazi family, who she grows to love. She never forgets who she is, although a More...

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Sep 11, 2009

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Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf is a historical fiction based in Europe during WWII. The story starts out in Czechoslovokia where Milada and her best friend Terezie are planning her birthday party. Milada's family doesn't have a lot of resources because of the war, but they manage to get her gifts and even a cake. Everything is good in life. But Nazi soldiers show up and tell them they have to leave. Milada's father and brother along with all the other village men are separated from the w More...

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Jul 21, 2009

Kaye rated it:

This book takes place in WWII. It is based on actual events although the characters are fictional. In 1942 there was a Czech uprising. One of Hitler’s top men was killed. It was rumored that the uprising began in the small town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia (Population around 500). Hitler retaliates by striking the village in the night. Soldiers go to each home, evicting residents and taking them prisoner. The men and boys are taken out to a farm and executed. The women are taken to a school. Most e More...

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Jul 03, 2009

Barky rated it:

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Aug 18, 2011

Emily rated it:

I waited a year after I bought this book to finally get to read this book. I wish that I would have read this book instead right away. Someone Named Eva is an eye-opener that shows how awful the war and Adolf Hitler really were. They brain washed people that qualified for the "German look" which resulted in them doubting how they were as a person and mostly ruined their lives if they were too young or were never brought back to their real families. You see they took girls with blon More...

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Apr 02, 2011

Michelle rated it:

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An emotional read for students and adults alike. My students connected to this historical fiction the way many do when reading the "Diary of Anne Frank". This 2010 2011 Sunshine State Young Readers Award book made the Grades 3 through 5 list. Definitely takes a mature reader due to content. Spurred a controversy in our school distict. I felt author Joan Wolf handled the holocaust with truth and sensitivity. More...

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Oct 22, 2010

Sheri rated it:

Someone Named Eva (Joann M. Wolf)
Historical Fiction. Set in WWII Germany/Czechoslovakia/Poland. Milada is a young Czech girl. She just celebrated her 11th Birthday in May of 1942. Shortly after this celebration her home is invaded by Nazi troops and her family is separated. Her father and brother are taken away, while her sister, mother & grandmother are held a school. Once there the children are separated and inspected. Milada is segregated with other children, she notes the one thing in c More...

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Mar 26, 2010

Ian rated it:

A lovely children's novel that tells the story of Milada, a young Czech girl, and how the events of World War II impact on her life. Milada and her family are residents of Lidice in Czechoslovakia and on one fateful morning Nazi soldiers arrive in the town. The story that follows sees Milada separated from her family and then 'Aryanised' in a Lebensborn camp in Poland. On completing her 'Nazification', Milada - now renamed the more German sounding "Eva" - is adopted by a high rankin More...

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May 03, 2011

Allison rated it:

So far I am really enjoying it. It is a very poignant book about the Nazi regime and it's effect on a family from the Czech Republic.
This book was written for young adults but I LOVED it as an adult. Very educational and so real. I loved it!

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Mar 10, 2010

BJ Rose rated it:

Czech freedom-fighters, rebelling against Hitler's takeover of their country, attempted to assassinate his #1 man in Czechoslovakia. In retaliation, Hitler orders the elimination of a Czech village - men and teen boys are executed, women and girls are placed in concentration camps, and the town is burned, bulldozed, and wiped out of existence. The town was Lidice. All of this is factual - this book itself is fiction based on these facts, and follows the young Milada who is dragged into Hitler's More...

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Feb 20, 2010

Sandy rated it:

Wow, what a moving book. I actually found myself wondering why this book wasn't considered for a book award. Though the characters are fictional, they are based on real life individuals who lived through such a horrific, evil time as World War II in Europe.

Ten year old Milada and her best friend Terezie have their birthdays only a month apart; right after Milada has her party, she and Terezie start planning the other. But Terezie never gets to have her party and the reader finds out More...

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Dec 30, 2009

Marie rated it:

Monday at the library they had a new display of nominees for the Beehive Award (similar to Texas' Bluebonnets) so I picked up this book. This is an amazing work, not only because I carried it around with me all day yesterday eager to keep reading at each free moment, but also because it addressed a chapter of history I had not heard before (while fiction, it appears to have been well researched). I had no idea that Hitler's forces had basically kidnapped children from all their occupied areas More...

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Feb 05, 2012

Annie rated it:

Joan M. Wolf has a very good writing style that easily portrays the lives of the Jewish people during the Holocaust. Someone Named Eva, is a book written from the point of view of Milada, a young Jew who is forced to heil Hitler and live as a German. Her family was taken from Czechoslovakia, and she was separated from them when the Nazis raded Jewish homes. She had the characteristics that Hitler desired, blonde hair and blue eyes. She was given the name Eva as she learned to be a German girl at More...

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Feb 05, 2012

Cassie rated it:

Wolf, Joan M.
Someone named Eva
New York; Clarion books, 2007
Print (hardcover and paperback)
This book is about a young Jewish girl named Milada during WW2. In the beggining every thing is perfectly normal until the Nazi's come in and tears her whole family apart. Milada is then sent to a german school and is given a new name, Eva.

Eva is a girl who lived in Germany during the reign of Hitler. Her character was well developed and the author gives the reader a go More...

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Sep 17, 2011

Jill rated it:

I've read a lot of books about WWII and the holocaust - but this story described a part of the war I was unaware of - the Lebensborn program. Children (particularly Polish children) who had Aryan features were kidnapped off the streets (or from their homes) and placed in "retraining centers" where they were "repatriated" as German children, then adopted into German homes.

This is the story of a girl from the small town of Lidice which was completely wiped out as an More...

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Aug 29, 2010

Ashley rated it:

Sunshine State Reader 2010-2011: Grades 3 - 5

I enjoyed this book very much. I try to know as little of the plot as possible when starting a book, I won't even read the book jackets. I had read the juvenile fiction book the Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen a few years back which depicted life in a Jewish concentration camp, and I expected this to be similar in content. However, this book detailed a completely different story. It was that of a young Czechoslovakian girl torn from he More...

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Feb 21, 2009

Hannah rated it:

I absolutely think the holocaust is a very interesting topic and is probably my favorite thing to learn. I cried a couple times in this book. *once again, I'm a sap* I learned new things in this book that I never found any where else I had looked. Realistic fiction is my favorite type of book and this actually happened to someone (not exactly but someone went through this).
Milada gets taken from her home and goes to camp where she learns to be a proper German girl with her perfect blue ey More...

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Feb 04, 2012

Kennedy rated it:

Someone Named Eva, written in 1st person narration, tells the story of a young girl, Milada, that lives in Czechoslovakia. In 1942 she was separated from her family during WWII. Before being seperated, her grandma tells her always to remember who she is. Throughout the book Milada has trouble doing this when going through hard and emotional things, but when she remembers this important lesson it in return helps her. This book was wonderful and told a different side of the story than you usually More...

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Jul 08, 2011

Jessica rated it:

This is a Holocaust book from the perspective of a Czech girl who is imprisoned in a Nazi camp where she is brainwashed and taught to be German. She is from the town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia where Hitler let out his vengeance and obliterated the town killing most of the people because it was thought to be a town that aided some assassins that killed one of Hitler's favorite officers. Eva, who was formally Milada struggles to remember who she really is and longs to be reunited with her real fa More...

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Mar 29, 2010

Jen rated it:

This book was one of the Rebeccca Caudill 2010 readers-choice award nominees, and my son, 9, and his friends were so enthusiastic about it that I had to check it out.

This is a work of fiction, but it is based on an actual event from WWII. The small Czechoslovakian town of Lidice was razed by the Nazis. Every man was slaughtered on the spot, and the women and children were either killed or sent to concentration camps. Except for 10 young girls, who were chosen because of their Aryan More...

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Sep 12, 2010

Brandon rated it:

This book is about a czechoslovakian girl named Milada and her encouters with becoming a perfect german during the holocaust. One day Germans invaded Milada's house and forced her family out of it. They were all sent to a shelter where they would sit for days without any answers of why this happened. After the many days Milada was separated from her family and sent to a Nazi school for girls. Here they taught young girls how to speak the German language and how to become a nazi. On the first day More...

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