Războiul care a salvat viațade Kimberly Brubaker Bradley este un cel mai bine vandut, castigator Newbery Honor , care a fost scris în 2015. Povestea este plasata in Anglia , la izbucnirea celui de al doilea război mondial , în 1939-1940.
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EXPOSITION
10 de ani , Ada Smith sa născut cu un picior de club. Mama ei care abuzează verbal și fizic nu a tratat-o niciodată sau i-a permis să învețe să meargă. Mama o forțează pe Ada să curețe și să aibă grijă de fratele ei mic Jamie. Jamie va urma în curând școala, dar Mam spune că Ada nu va părăsi niciodatăapartamentul lor în ruină din Londra. Ada decide că trebuie să se învețe să meargă, în ciuda cât de dureros este.
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RISING ACTION
The British government expects Nazi Germany to bomb major cities like London. Children are evacuated to the countryside and placed with foster families. Ada sneaks Jamie to the train station. They are placed with Susan Smith, a single woman who says she is ill-equipped to care for children. Despite this, Susan is very kind and the children have a comfortable life. Ada is especially fond of Susan's pony, Butter. Being with Butter is therapeutic and she is determined to learn to ride.
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CLIMAX / TURNING POINT
Ada and Jamie spend a year with Susan, who comes to care deeply for them. She helps Ada overcome the years of trauma and neglect. Ada learns to ride Butter and helps the farrier care for horses on the Thornton estate. She befriends Margaret Thornton and begins learning to read and write. Ada even helps the evacuated soldiers from the Battle of Dunkirk and becomes a local hero helping to capture a spy! But their worst nightmares come true and Mam comes to take them away.
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FALLING ACTION
Back in London, Mam locks up Ada and Jamie again in the tiny apartment despite the threat of a bombing. She leaves for work and London is bombed! Ada and Jamie barely make it out of their apartment alive. They are stunned to see Susan through the smoke, rushing to find them! Even though she felt forced to give them back to their biological mother, she regretted it the moment Mam took them.
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RESOLUTION
Susan, Ada, and Jamie return to their village to find that Susan's home was bombed while they were gone! The townspeople were desperately digging to try and find them in the rubble. If Susan hadn't gone to London to rescue Ada and Jamie, she could have died. She thanks Jamie and Ada for saving her life. Ada says that they are even because Susan saved her life too.