The Earth is Singing

Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson.

I am 15. I am Latvian. I live with my mother and grandmother.

My father is missing - taken by the Russians. I have a boyfriend. When he holds my hand, everything feels perfect.

I'm training to be a dancer. But none of that matters now. Because the Nazis have arrived, and I am a Jew.

And as far as they are concerned, that is all that matters. This is my story.