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Waltraut

Waltraut

Book 2024

"The story of a first-generation-Canadian girl growing up in the shadows of the Second World War and navigating two cultures while struggling to find herself. Eleven-year-old Waltraut wants to fit in at school, but it's not easy. Not only does her name rhyme with the ethnic slur that is often hurled her way, but no one can relate to her immigrant family and their complicated past. On weekends, however, she attends German school with friends who a...