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What have we learned in the past 80 years? (from publisher description)

Barbed Wire Between Us by Mia Wenjen

October 7, 2025 by BlackRaven 2 Comments

Barbed Wire Between Us by Mia Wenjen and illustrated by Violeta Encarnación was a WOW book. It was not necessarily the story itself (though that is pretty wild) it was the way it was formatted that really made it work for me. It is a fantastic circular story that shows how history can repeat. But not only that, the text is repeated. We start with a young girl who is behind a fence in the 1940s. How she gets there, the thoughts and feelings she […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: 20th Century, 21st Century, family, Mia Wenjen, prejudices & racism, Social Themes, United States, Violeta Encarnación

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:436 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: 20th Century, 21st Century, family, Mia Wenjen, prejudices & racism, Social Themes, United States, Violeta Encarnación ·
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