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	Kessler, Liz. WHEN THE WORLD WAS OURS New York, New York : Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, 2021. IL 5-8 ISBN 9781534499652
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	It's 1936 in Vienna and things are starting to change. Three best friends don't see it happening but their families do. Leo, Max, and Elsa firmly believe that they will always be friends.  But Leo and Elsa are Jewish and Hitler has declared that they are not allowed the same rights as Max. And Max is the son of an important German officer in Hitler's regime. And Max is told he is joining the Hitler Youth and learn to be a good Nazi. Each child must now take a different path.
	SUBJECTS:   World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Austria -- Fiction.                         Jews -- Austria -- Vienna -- Fiction.                         Friendship -- Fiction.                         Vienna (Austria) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

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