Resistance” by Jennifer A. Nielsen is a historical novel set during World War II, following Chaya Lindner, a Jewish teenager in Nazi-occupied Poland. Chaya becomes a courier, using forged papers and her fair features to smuggle food, medicine, and people between ghettos, risking her life to aid her community. The novel has been praised for its compelling narrative and character development. One reviewer noted that it “draws on the lives of actual resistance workers to create an excellent story—a story that demonstrates love is ‘a weapon that will defeat hate every single time.

ISBN: 9781338331493