Isabel's war

"Isabel Brandt is a French-phrase-dropping twelve-year-old Jewish girl from the Bronx who's more interested in boys and bobbing her nose than the war raging overseas. But Isabel's sheltered life is turned upside down when Helga, the beautiful niece of her mother's best friend, comes to live with her family. As she learns more about Helga's harrowing journey from Hitler's Germany to America, Isabel begins to understand the horrors of the Holocaust, and the true costs of war"--Back cover.