Edith Hemingway

Enemies in the Orchard

Fiction

“The power of a novel in verse lies in its economy of words, a lyrical telling of a story distilled to its very essence, and Dana VanderLugt has done this masterfully. Told in two voices on opposing sides of the page—that of Claire, an impressionable, impressionable, young teen girl working in her family’s orchard on the home front, and that of Karl, a young German POW soldier forced to fight in a war he’s not sure about—the novel covers a lesser-known aspect of WWII. Enemies in the Orchard, with its budding friendship amid the harsh realities and truths of war, is a story not only for middle-grade readers, but one for readers of all ages.”