Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick

When soliders arrive at his hometown in Cambodia, Arn is just a kid, selling ice cream with his brother, but everything changes. After the soliders march the entire population into the countryside, Arn is separated from family and is assigned to a labor camp, working in the rice paddies under a blazing sun he sees the other children weak from hunger and malaria. He sees prisoners marched to a near by mango grove, and never return. One day the soldiers ask if any of the kids can a play a instrument. Arn never has played a note in his life, but he volunteers. This decicion will save his life, but it will pull him into the very center of what to know today as Killing Fields. Will he achieve his goal to save all the kids?
I rate this book four stars out of five because it pulled me in sometimes, but sometimes it didn't. This book was very descriptive in all that happens in the story. I recommend this book to people that love based on true stories and people who like to read a story that shows a great lesson.

--Review by Litsi

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

When " Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she is sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst dream. Her Nazi interrogators give a simple choice; reval her mission or face a deadly execution. They'll get the truth out of her, but it won't be what they expect. As she intricately tells her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrape of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure, and her desperate hope to make it home. Will trading her secrets be enough to save her from a merciless and ruthless enemy?
 I rate this book three and a half stars out of five because this was not a book that I really enjoyed reading. For me it was confusing to read at parts and get what the author was trying to say. I recommend this book to people who like to read books that go back in History and add fictional characters. 

--Review by Litsi