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Article: Velbe, Vivian Vande. A coming evil.(Young adult review)(Book review)
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- September 1, 2007
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VELBE, Vivian Vande. A coming evil. Houghton Mifflin. 213p. bibliog, c1998. 978-0-618-74781-8. $6.95. J
To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, September 1998: By now, I have read a great many stories about the Holocaust, fiction and nonfiction. So, I'm surprised that Velde has imagined something quite different, because by using a ghost story, she joins the evil of the Holocaust with another time of religious persecution, the 14th-century persecution of the Knights Templars. This is challenging for American middle-school readers who probably know little about the Holocaust and even less about the Crusades. It may be that the ghost story will add to the ...