War Games by Audrey and Akila Cououmbis

Couloumbis, Audrey & Couloumbis, Akila War Games, 224 pgs. Random House, 2009. Language - G, Sexual Content - G; Violence - PG; Petros lives with his family in Greece during the time of World War 2. In order to be safe, his father tells everyone in their household (Petros, his sister, his brother, his mother, and his grandfather) that they are only going to speek Greek and that they're going to burn or bury everything not Greek. Anything that has so much as one English letter on it is gone. After living in America for a few years, this is hard on the family. I really liked reading this book. I love the suspence that is radiating from the pages, wondering how the war is going to effct Petros and his family. I didn't really like the ending though, because there isn't an ending; it just ends. MS - ADVISABLE. Reviewer: CH