The Little Liar by Mitch Albom - Led by Denise Stankovics

In what has been called his most important novel to date, Mitch Albom examines the repercussions of deception in a story of truth and lies set during the Holocaust. Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. When the Nazis invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is offered a chance to save his family by persuading his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading “north” where jobs and safety await. Unaware that this is a cruel ruse, the boy reassures passengers on the station platform every day, but when the final train is loaded, Nico sees his family being herded into a boxcar. Only then does he discover that he has helped send them and everyone he knows and loves to their doom at Auschwitz. Nico escapes—but he never tells the truth again.

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