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Sara Young, also known as Sara Pennypacker is the author of seventeen children's books, including the New York Times best-selling Clementine series; Summer of the Gypsy MothsPierre in Love; Sparrow Girl; and The Amazing World of Stuart. She has also contributed four books to the venerable Flat Stanley series.
Her books have won numerous awards, including a Golden Kite Award and a Christopher's Medal, many children's choice state awards, and have appeared on many 'Best Books' lists.
She splits her time between Florida and Massachusetts.
Sara Young (Pennypacker)'s website
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Warning: This interview contains potential plot spoilers!
An Interview with Sara Young, author of My Enemy's Cradle
Cyrla lives with her Dutch relatives in Nazi-occupied Holland. She has been
successfully hiding the fact that she is half-Jewish—until neighbors threaten to
expose her identity. Through an cruel twist of fate, Cyrla enters a Lebensborn
as her pregnant cousin, Anneke. Cyrla wants to keep her child, though, so she
resolves to leave the maternity home before the baby is born. But an unexpected
visit from the German soldier who fathered Anneke's baby complicates her plan to
escape. My Enemy's Cradle is a story of love and loss, sacrifice and survival.
How much did you know about the Lebensborn program before you began
working on My Enemy's Cradle? What about this relatively unknown episode of
history appealed to you as a writer?
I knew nothing about it before I took a walk with a friend, a
WWII buff, who mentioned it. Right away I was shocked that something this large,
that affected so many people, was largely unknown—that was the first appeal. But
soon, as a writer, I began to wonder why no one had set a novel in such a ripe
situation: a Lebensborn home was a natural crucible ...
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