Heroes of the Underground by Susanne Gervay
About Susanne Gervay
Awarded the Lifetime Social Justice Literature Award by the International Literacy Association, Order of Australia, nominee for Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and as the child of refugees, Susanne is committed to empowering young people through story. Her young adult books reach into search for identity from the second rise of feminism Shadows of Olive Trees, sexual consent The Cave to disability Butterflies. Her younger I Am Jack books have become rite-of-passage on school bullying. An advocate for literacy, she is an author ambassador for Room to Read, Books in Home and many reading campaigns. For further information:
A Quote from Susanne Gervay
“The lessons of the Holocaust are searingly relevant to this day. Seventy-five years after the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, hatred and intolerance still lurk in the human heart, still tell new lies, adopt new disguises, and still seek new victims,’ were the words of Prince Charles at the World Holocaust Forum. Heroes of the Secret Underground is inspired by my family who survived the Holocaust and those who have faced war. It was written to empower our young people to vigorously oppose the ongoing spread of hatred and bigotry to become advocates of justice.”
About Heroes of the Underground
A timely and powerful time-slip story inspired by the author’s family in Budapest during the Holocaust.
Louie lives with her brothers, Bert and Teddy, in a hotel run by their grandparents. It is one of Sydney’s grand old buildings, rich in history … and in secrets. When a rose-gold locket, once thought lost, is uncovered, it sends Louie and her brothers spinning back in time. Back to a world at war: Budapest in the winter of 1944, where their grandparents are hiding secrets of their own …
