Rachel Trilogy: Rachel's Secret (Paperback)

from sara1022

I received this book from Early Reviewers. This book had me straight from the beginning. It is one of those tales that is captivating and leaves readers wondering what will come next. It is about Rachel, a jew, who lives in Kishinev and witnesses a friend's murder. Although I thought this book wa...

from Carolee888

Rachel's Secret by Shelly Sanders is a fictionalized account of a real event in Kishinev, Russia in 1903. The books started off with a group enjoying the day ice skating on the River Byrk. It was customary for the Christians and Jewish to not mix socially but this day they all having fun on the i...

from curioussquared

I really enjoyed this! I feel these sorts of books are always hard to write without seeming trite, but Rachel's Secret got past that admirably. I had a long bus ride and this book and I barely looked up once. While the writing was a bit young at times, it didn't at all impede my enjoyment, and I ...

from Sarah_Gruwell

A promising start to this trilogy, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. YA novels are sometimes a toss-up; they can be shockingly awesome or heaping piles of stinky stuff. It all depends on which part of the YA audience the author is targeting, I think, and how much effort goes into telling ...

from LauraEnos

This is a fabulous historical-fiction novel for young adults highlighting an overlooked time in the early 1900s. Many times young adults are captivated with Holocaust survivor stories, but it's important to remember that the Jewish population in both Russia and Europe faced discrimination decades...