title: Orphan Game, The
author:  Ann Darby 
description: "Thoughtful ... a haunting picture ... particularly arresting." -- <i>-- <i>Entertainment Weekly</i></i>
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  A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II,
  The Orphan’s Tale introduces two extraordinary women and their harrowing
  stories of sacrifice and survival
  
  
  Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by
  a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small
  rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep... When Noa discovers
  a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp,
  she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that
  will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies and flees
  into the snowy night.
  
  
  Noa finds refuge with a German circus, but she must learn the flying trapeze
  act so she can blend in undetected, spurning the resentment of the lead
  aerialist, Astrid. At first rivals, Noa and Astrid soon forge a powerful bond.
  But as t