The Extra

By Kathryn Lasky

In this chilling but ultimately uplifting novel, Kathryn Lasky imagines a story of survival unlike any other.

A deeply moving and unique story of survival by the award-winning writer Kathryn Lasky. One ordinary afternoon, fifteen-year-old Lilo and her family are suddenly picked up by Hitler’s police and imprisoned. Just when it seems certain that they will be sent to a labour camp, Lilo is chosen by filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to work as a film extra. Life on the film set is a bizarre alternate reality and the beautiful, charming Riefenstahl is always present. But Riefenstahl also answers the slightest provocation with malice and flaunts the power to assign prisoners to life or death.

Categories: Fiction

For readers aged: 12+

Publication details:
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781406358636
Published: 07 May 2015
Price: £7.99

Size: 198 x 129 mm
Pages: 320

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'This compelling coming-of-age novel takes young teenager Lilo, a Gypsie in 1940s Austria, through the Second World War, from which she emerges sadder, stronger and strangely optimistic about the future […] Woven into the struggle for everyday existence is the subtly portrayed deepening relationship between the two adolescents, which even survives their separation.' Inis Reading Guide

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