The Extra

This week I read The Extra by Kathryn Lasky. This book is about a 15-year-old girl named Lilo, living in Russia, who gets captured and taken to a concentration camp holding pen and then to a concentration camp, because they are gypsies. After getting separated from her dad, Lilo eventually gets sent to be an extra at the set of one of Hitler's favorite filmmakers. Lilo and her friends are excited to get out of the concentration camp, but soon find out that life at the set isn't much better, and that the star is basically a psycomaniac. Lilo eventually faces the choice of trying to escape, and what to do after that, while leaving her friends and her mom behind, or staying and hoping that someone will come to rescue her. This book was pretty good, but not amazing and a very fast read. I would recommend this book to 7th graders probably.