Touch Wood: A Girlhood in Occupied France

Renee Rothhano. Puffin Books, $5.99 (304pp) ISBN 978-0-14-034085-3

In 1940, a girl and her family are forced into exile when their refuge in Paris proves unsafe. PW praised the author's moving depiction of ``these memories of the sorrow--without self-pity--for the terrors around her.'' Ages 10-up. (Oct.)

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