Zeidler's stories about World War II and seeing her own younger sister become a member of the ""hate"" group, Lexi comes to recognize how she has mistaken lies for truth. Zeidler is reminded of her own childhood in Germany during Hitler's reign. Seeing Lexi's tattoo of a swastika (""I call it my spider,"" Lexi explained, even though the woman hadn't asked. Zeidler (mistaking red spray paint for blood) invites the frightened girl into her house. Lexi is being chased by the police when Mrs. Zeidler first meet after Lexi vandalizes a local synagogue. For both, the consequences of their actions become achingly real.Williams (Behind the Bedroom Wall) returns to the subject of Nazism and its effect on youths, this time setting her story in modern-day America, juxtaposing the thoughts of a teenage ""skinhead"" against the memories of a former member of the Hitler Youth.
Williams allows the reader to see the world through the eyes of two girls: one in the present, whose dissatisfaction with her life leads her to flirt with the edges of danger, and one from the past. In this suspenseful and all too realistic novel, Laura E. When she meets Ursula Zeidler, an old woman with a terrifying secret, Lexi sets off a chain of events that places everyone she cares about in danger and leads her to make the most important decisions of her life. She feels more at home sneaking out to meet and make plans with her friends than she does in her own home.īut Lexi begins to wonder just how safe she is when the group begins to do things that make her increasingly uneasy.
She knows the tattoo on her head-of a swastika-and the heavy boots that blister her feet are part of belonging. Lexi Jordan knows the names her friends use to talk about themselves, but she isn't quite sure what they mean.
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