🌍 WHEN THE WORLD WAS OURS

Genre: Historical Fiction • Holocaust Fiction • Middle Grade
Recommended Age: 10–14 • Grades 5–9
Themes: Friendship • Family • Courage • Hope • Survival • Resilience

by Liz Kessler

Three friends. One unforgettable bond. A world about to change forever.

Vienna, 1936. Leo, Elsa, and Max are three young friends enjoying a perfect day together, unaware that a growing darkness is spreading across Europe.

Soon, the friends are torn apart as the Holocaust changes the course of their lives. Their journeys take them ac