Let me introduce you to Audra, a teenage Lithuanian girl who has the trait of being brave. This trait is shown when Audra has to go on multiple adventures to stand up to the Russian Cossack soldiers in the book Words On Fire by Jennifer Nielsen In the beginning of this story, the Cossack soldiers have taken over Lithuania and put in many different laws in place, such as Lithuanians couldn’t practice their religion or read books in Lithuanian. What Audra doesn’t know is that her parents were in an important business of book smuggling but never discussed it with Audra personally but one day Audra figured out what they do. Then, one day Cossack soldiers led by Officer Rusakov come to Audra’s home to confront her parents about their business. Not only do they come but they burn Audra’s home, arresting her parents, and leave Audra with an illegal book that she had to get to a woman she doesnt know named Milda.    After multiple days Audra finds Milda with the help of a boy named Lukas who becomes her friend. Audra stays with Milda for a while and Audra wants to smuggle books to honor her parents. This is a really hard job, but Audra is really brave so she wants to do it . Now Audra has to go on many more adventures to do this job all to get her parents back. Will Audra reunite with her parents? Will Audra and Lukas get caught by Officer Rusakov and get sent to prison or be safe? Read Words on Fire by Jennifer Nielsen to find out! 

If you liked the book Words on Fire by Jennifer Nielsen then you might also like the book Night Divided also by Jennifer Nielsen, which is another historical Fiction book. This book connects to Words on Fire because both characters realize at the end of the book that assumptions of people are not always correct. Night Divided follows the main character Gerta who is trying to escape the East end of the Berlin Wall in Germany. Gerta’s family lives on the East End of Berlin where the Soviet Union is in charge. Gerta’s family hates living in the East, but her mom doesn’t want to leave her own mother behind if they leave.  Her father and younger brother Dominik have already escaped to the West End where it’s free to see if they can find a home for their family before the wall is complete. Now that the wall is complete nobody can leave the East End. Gerta, and older brother Fritz now have to find a way to make it over there too and then convince her mother to go with them. Will Fritz and Gerta find a way to Escape? Will they get caught and arrested? Read the book Night Divided by Jennifer Nielsen to find out.