Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, 1999.
She began to fight back. Irene was forced to work for the German Army, but her blond hair, her blue eyes, and her youth bought her the relatively safe job of waitress in an officers' dining room.
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