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This is a young adult novel that should be read by adults, too. It is a fascinating look at the world if Germany had won World War 2. Six 12-year-olds live in the same town, three in today's time and three in 1944. They communicate via an old radio and accidentally make some changes that affect the entire world. They know about the butterfly effect and realize they may have altered history, so they try to alter it back. Terrific storyline that surprisingly ends with a question mark that is a bit disappointing but now there had better be a sequel! The big drawback is that the ARC is only available on the NetGalley Shelf App, which meant I had to read the book on my phone. I hate doing that, but the book was so interesting that I read it on my phone anyway. Please, NetGalley, do not do this! Make everything available as a Kindle. Reading on a small phone screen is agony! However, I do thank NetGalley, Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing, and Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers for providing an ARC.

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Even though this book is for middle school age children, I really enjoyed it and couldn't put it down.

The book shows what could happen when you mess with history: the butterfly effect.

The way it was written, the authors, made sure you were invested in all the main characters. The only downside is that it ends with a cliffhanger.

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I was hooked by the description. What an interesting and scary thought. What would life be like in America today if the Nazis had won WWII? Being that this is geared to middle grade readers, I think it does a good job of being a realistic scary scenario, while not taking it to far for the audience.
I'm very interested in seeing where things go next as the book ends on quite the cliff hanger.

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.acsm files do not open on Kindle so I cannot read them. Please indicate that you're only offering these files so I will not mistakenly accept your offer of a DRC I cannot read.

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