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Monica Hesse

Biography

Monica Hesse

Monica Hesse is the bestselling author of GIRL IN THE BLUE COAT and AMERICAN FIRE, as well as a journalist with The Washington Post. She lives outside Washington, D.C. with her husband and their dog.

Monica Hesse

Books by Monica Hesse

by Monica Hesse - Fiction, Historical Fiction

It's 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado --- until they were uprooted to dusty Texas, all because of the places their parents once called home: Germany and Japan. Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a "family internment camp" for those accused of colluding with the enemy. With everything around them falling apart, the teens find solace in their growing, secret friendship. But in a prison the government has deemed full of spies, can they trust anyone --- even each other?

by Monica Hesse - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult 14+

Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the Dutch front lines when the Germans invaded. On a routine delivery, a client asks Hanneke for help. Expecting to hear that Mrs. Janssen wants meat or kerosene, she is shocked by the older woman's frantic plea to find a person --- a Jewish teenager Mrs. Janssen had been hiding, who has vanished without a trace from a secret room.