Book Review: The Story That Cannot Be Told

The Story That Cannot Be Told

by J. Kasper Kramer

Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Children’s Fiction

Pub Date 08 Oct 2019

I am reviewing a copy of The Story That Cannot Be Told through Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing/ Atheneum Books for Young Readers and Netgalley:

Ileana collects stories, some are about the past, before the leader of the country

tore down her home, the home she loved to make room for his Golden Palace, when people had enough work, and running water that worked more than just on Saturday Nights! The other stories she collected were the Folk tales she was named for, the stories her Father used to tell her when she was a little girl. But there are stories that can get you into trouble especially when they are like the dangerous one criticizing Romania’s communist government that her Uncle Andrei had published right before he went missing.

Ileana’s parents make the drastic decision to send Ileana to live with her grandparents, grandparents she had never met, far from the prying eyes of the secret police and their spies who could be any of the neighbors. But danger is never far away and Ileana soon finds herself having to tell the most important story of her life in order to save her family and her village.

I give The Story That Cannot Be Told five out of five stars!

Happy Reading