Joan M. Wolf

Czech-born Milada is ripped from her family by the Germans during WWII and placed in a training camp where she is reprogrammed to become the perfect German girl, someone named Eva. Milada struggles to remember who she really while she fights to survive. Things get really interesting when she is adopted by a German family with a high-ranking SS officer at the helm.

I taught this book to my sixth-grade reading class. Of course, I had to teach background knowledge about the war, but my students show more were really engaged by the story. Surprisingly a lot of the kids connected to Milada's story because of their own experiences in the foster care system. Even my son, who is 13 and hates to read, loved this book.

While teaching this book we had discussions about discrimination and persecution, lessons about propaganda, the Hitler Youth, and we studied wartime posters to compare women's roles in Nazi Germany to the changing roles of women in America at that time. show less

Someone named Eva takes place during WWII where Milada, an eleven-year-old Czech girl, is separated from her family by the Nazis due to her blonde hair and blue eyes. She is renamed Eva and is sent to be "re-educated" so she can be adopted by wealthy Germans who want an Aryan child. This book touches on a touchy subject but I think it's important for kids to be exposed to this. It's one thing to hear about the holocaust, it's another to read somebody's account. So the age for this will show more probably be 4th to 8th grade. Something that stands out is Milada's process through the re-education program and her struggling to remember who she is as the people change around her. I used to read this book all the time as a kid, it was one of my favorites. I'm Jewish on my dad's side, Sephardic to be exact, so I've always been interested in WWII. This book doesn't hold back any punches, but it's still tasteful. I recommend this book for kids that are interested in history, and the people affected by it. show less

Wonderfully written book that allows you to feel Milada's experience of being taken from her home by the Nazi soldiers. Wolf does a fantastic job of teaching readers how not only Jews were affected during the Holocaust, but also Christian children who looked like the perfect "Arayan" children. Milada is a strong character who does everything in her power to not forget her heritage, even after being given a new name, Eva, and being adopted by a high ranking Nazi family.

My daughter has wanted me to read this one for about 4 years. It was really good! Nazi Germany from a totally different perspective, a girl from Czech. who was not Jewish and looked like the desired Aryan race that Hitler thought as a perfect German. Taken from her family and schooled in how to be a perfect German and then adopted out to a Nazi family. Well written and easy to read. Definitely some tears shed.