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Girl in the Blue Coat

Update 9/28/18: I am now an affiliate with Z Publishing House. I do get a small commission from any purchases through this link ( http://www.zpublishinghouse.com?rfsn=1831564.e6264) if anyone is interested in some anthologies of emerging writers.  Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse is published by Little, Brown, and Company.This nontraditional mystery won the Edgar Award for Best YA Mystery. This book is set during World War II in the Netherlands and follows a girl named Hanneke who smuggles extra rations for her boss. What starts as a normal day shirking the law under the Nazi regime turns into a hunt for a missing girl. One of her customers confesses to Hanneke that she's been hiding a Jewish girl who has somehow vanished from her hiding place. At first Hanneke refuses but she starts looking for clues, eventually getting pulled into the underground resistance and witnessing the atrocities of the war and has to come to terms with her past and what she's be...