A different look at the Holocaust

I always learn something when reading historical fiction, and Black Radishes by Susan Lynn Meyer was no exception.  Based on the childhood lives of the author's father and aunt during World War II, the story takes place in France.  Gustave and his parents are Jewish and living in Paris, but growing discrimination causes them to flee to a small village, where they think they'll be safe.  However, Germany continues their invasion, and soon the line between occupied and unoccupied France is very, very close.  As the pace of the book picks up, so do the sophistication of Gustave's concerns; early in the story, he has to decide which toy to take when they leave Paris, but later in the book he's faced with a life-or-death decision while helping to sneak relatives across the demarcation line.  (The title refers to the black radishes which Gustave and his father hope to use to bribe some of the German guards.)  A captivating read.