Queen of the Bremen Marlies Adams DiFante, Ann Marie DiFante I received  Queen of the Bremen: The True Story Of An American Child Trapped In Germany During World War II  as a Christmas present from my nephew. I suppose he must have gotten it in a used book store somewhere. It's a self-published memoire of an American woman,  Marlies Adams DiFante  (recorded by her daughter-in-law Ann Marie DiFante) telling the story of how she was trapped in Germany with her family for seven years during World War II. Her father, John Adams, emigrated from Germany to the USA, where he started a family and became a citizen. In 1939 his wife (also German-American) received a letter informing her that her father was dying. John Adams obeyed the summons to his wife's father's deathbed -- taking his son, Peter, and daughter, Marlies, (six and five years old) and his pregnant wife to Germany. It was terrible timing. Hitler had recently come to power. He invaded Poland, starting World War I...

Premeditated Myrtle Elizabeth C. Bunce Probably when you were a kid there were times when you felt you were not like other kids. (I may be wrong, but I'm guessing this is a universal human experience.) Myrtle Hardcastle (the hero of  Elizabeth C. Bunce 's  Myrtle Hardcastle  series is a precocious 12-year-old girl, the daughter of Prosecutor Arthur Hardcastle. His position is something like that of a District Attorney in the modern US legal system -- a government lawyer whose job is to prosecute criminals in court. As  Elizabeth C. Bunce  explains in an Author's Note, such Prosecutors were a relatively new thing in England in 1893. Myrtle is motherless -- her mother, who studied to be a physician, died of cancer some years ago. Myrtle's ambition is to be a detective or prosecutor or something like that. (She probably knows precisely what she wants -- that would be like Myrtle, but she was not entirely explicit about her plans, hence my vagueness.) To this end sh...