Her neighbors earing the yellow star were all taken away, but Lida is not not Jewish.  She will be fine, won't she?

But she cannot escape the horrors of World War II.

Lida's parents are ripped away from her, and she is separated from her beloved sister.  The Nazis take Lida to a brutal work camp, where she and other Ukrainian children are forced into backbreaking labor.

When Lida is assigned to make bombs for the German army, she can't stand the idea of helping the enemy.  Then she has an idea.  What if she sabotages the bombs...and the Nazis? Can she do so without getting caught?

And if she's freed, will she ever find her sister?

From the back of the paperback reprint