{"product_id":"under-the-same-stars","title":"Under the Same Stars","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnder the Same Stars is ahistorical mystery that interweaves the experiences of young people across three different timelines. In Nazi Germany, best friends Sophie and Hanna use letters hidden in the legendary Bridegroom's Oak as they become involved in resistance against the regime. In 1980 West Berlin, American teenager Jenny is drawn into the punk movement and a relationship with Lena, an activist determined to challenge the divisions between East and West Germany. In New York City during the spring of 2020, Miles and Chloe investigate the decades-old disappearance of two German teenagers while confronting the COVID-19 pandemic and renewed protests against racial injustice. As connextions among the three stories emerge, the novel explores friendship, identity, authoritarianism, prejudice, resistance, moral courage, and the responsibility to act when others are being harmed. Its shifting timelines and gradual development of the central mystery require readers to follow multiple characters, settings, and historical contexts.\u003cbr\u003eContent note: The novel contains potentially distressing depictions of Nazism, the Holocaust, anitsemitism, racism, homophobia, war, political oppression, police brutality, the COVID-19 pandemic, death, and grief. It includes shootings, arrests, persecution, and a grapic account of the mass execution of Jewish people by Nazi mobile killing units. The novel also contains some coarse language and a brief sexual encounter between teenage characters that is described without extensive graphic details. These elements, along with the novel's historical complexity and sustained threat of violence, should be considered when determining suitability and planning appropriate contextual supports.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nova Scotia School Book Bureau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46118283378748,"sku":null,"price":14.73,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/3677\/6508\/files\/9320752596_140.jpg?v=1788268946","url":"https:\/\/nssbb.ednet.ns.ca\/fr\/products\/under-the-same-stars","provider":"Nova Scotia School Book Bureau","version":"1.0","type":"link"}