![]() Still, Annemarie believes that she and her family-“ordinary people”-will be able to wait out the war peacefully and safely by keeping their heads down, and will never be called upon to fight or act. Annemarie remembers the plentiful and carefree existence her family enjoyed before the war with longing-since the occupation and the death of her older sister, Lise, in a mysterious hit-and-run accident, nothing has been the same. ![]() The protagonist of the novel, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is an outgoing and ambitious young girl who maintains a cheerful outlook even as her Nazi-occupied hometown of Copenhagen becomes a dangerous place for her and her best friend Ellen Rosen, who is Jewish. ![]()
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