The Girls They Left Behind
Bernice Thurman Hunter
191 pages
8.5/10

I'm not usually into historical fiction stuff, but this one was really good. The cover was really cool, So many that's why I decided to take a look at it. It didn't take long to read, but there was a lot of content. The entire book was full of many emotions.

It's about a girl named Beryl (or Nathalie), whose male relatives have all gone to fight in the war (world war II) . She is left at home, and it is almost her 18th birthday. She will have to celebrate it with only a few people. Watching everybody go was not easy. When would they come back? What if they didn't come back? There were so many questions. Nathalie writes letters to her cousin, Carmen (a boy..) who seems to have fallen in love with a woman.

Okay I know that was very boring but I don't want to give stuff away. Read it, cuz it's really good! I really liked the ending, too. It really wrapped up the story (well obviously not entirely).. and I just liked how the ending was written. Apparently, the last parts of the book was written by Bernice Thurman Hunter's daughter, because Bernice passed away before she could finish writing the book.

*would have been 72
*Can be published in a teen newsletter

--Jessica--