Every young person has a dream to do something incredible. Be a movie star, an author, or a pop artist. We all want to be remembered. I am seventeen and started writing this book at fourteen. So why such a sinister topic such as World War two and the holocaust. Well, let's just say I was heavily inspired by a few books I read about the topic. For example, as a child, I read "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry in elementary school, "The Devils Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen, and "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys in middle school. Then "Night: a memoir" by Elie Wiesel in high school. Reading these books was my inspiration for writing this novel. I like researching this time in history and also went to the holocaust museum in Washington D.C. during a field trip.
As a child and being autistic, I have always been a very creative person. My family would always tell me how when I was a child I would make up stories and create my own small books. I also love music and I love the creative process of creating music and a story. Basically from a child I knew I was going to do something in the arts as a profession, possibly a few things. For example, it is my dream to be on broadway and to be an author. Maybe I could write my own musical and be up in the ranks like the incomparable Lin Manuel Miranda.
Continuing with writing, I also have written several poems and a few short stories. This is my first novel but have two in the making. One is realistic fiction and one science fiction.
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Camp Majdanek
Historical FictionJessica is a teenage girl who lives in Poland with her father, mother, brother and sister. They get taken by Nazi soldiers. See her and her family move through these challenges of being in a concentration camp and recover from a tragic family death...
