A review by jennybeastie
Hettie and the London Blitz: A World War II Survival Story by Jenni L. Walsh

3.0

12 year old Hettie (at least at the beginning of the book) is full of anxiety regarding WWII. She lives in London with her family, is bombed in the blitz, and evacuated to the countryside for much of the war. Packs a lot into a short book. Hettie is hard to like at first, given her many fears, but she finds a way to keep her family connected over distance and time by writing down and sharing her memories. Does a great job of conveying just how long some of those evacuation placements lasted, and the impact on younger children, who didn't necessarily remember their original family well. What an unimaginable time of displacement and upheaval.