{"product_id":"american-shoes","title":"American Shoes","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023 Gold Moonbeam Children''s Book Award in Non-Fiction: Chapter Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCommended as a \"moving and hopeful story of courage and perseverance\" in a starred review by \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e is a profound mosaic of memories recounting 15-year-old Rosemarie Lengsfeld Turke’s escape from Nazi Germany, leaving her life and family behind to forge ahead in an America she left as a small child.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet against a backdrop of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, the reign of Nazi Germany, and the entire course of World War II in Europe, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the tumultuous childhood of a young American girl and her family trapped within a country that turned against itself, where human decency eroded and then vaporized. Forced to grow up in the midst of endemic fear stoked by a ravenous madman, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e portrays the breakdown of a society from a child’s point of view, deep inside a land where millions of law-abiding citizens were targeted as threats, and then removed for extermination.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This is the story of a brave girl who, despite not being Jewish, was perceived to be one of those threats and was compelled to keep her American identity secret for fear of her family’s arrest, concentration camp placement, or worse. Fighting to see through a relentless barrage of Nazi lies and propaganda, caught within a nation where resistance or opposition meant incarceration if not certain death, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Shoes \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates one family’s struggle to survive against impossible odds as a cataclysmic world war marched closer and closer until it was upon them.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Vividly told for the first time after seven decades of a family’s collective silence, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the story of a brave and spirited young girl named Rosel who refused to accept the new order of a world gone mad, inside a society that became more sinister and macabre than any childhood nightmare could ever be. Driven by the faint memories of the land where she was born—a hazy beacon that guided her toward freedom and a new life—this is the story of Rosemarie Lengsfeld Turke.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312729858430,"sku":"NW9781582708522","price":22.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781582708522.jpg?v=1778589411","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/american-shoes","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}