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	Kramer, J. Kasper. THE STORY THAT CANNOT BE TOLD New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019. IL 5-8 ISBN: 978-1534430686.
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	Can a story be dangerous? Ileana, growing up in Bucharest, is a storyteller and a fairy tale collector. She is clever like her namesake in the story - but she has learned that words can get you in trouble, and in Communist Romania, everyone listens carefully to every word you say. After making a near-fatal mistake, Ileana, for her own safety, is sent away to live in a remote village with her grandparents, where life is very different from that she has been accustomed to in the city. Her grandparents are farmers with no electricity or plumbing; and the people of the village are confused by the way Ileana dresses and acts. What connects Ileana to the village is the importance of storytelling. She begins to see that the people of her grandparents’ world are not so different after all - while at the same time government officers begin to close in. Historical fiction paired with altered fairy tales. (Vermont Middle Grade Book Award, 2021)
	SUBJECTS:   Romania -- History -- Revolution, 1989 -- Fiction.                         Family life -- Romania -- Fiction.                         Authorship -- Fiction.                         Dictatorship -- Fiction.                         Revolutions -- Fiction.

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