Book Names Rose Under Fire

For a deeper dive into the Soviet women who flew in World War II, check out my non-fiction for teens, A Thousand Sisters. The USSR was the only Allied nation that sent women pilots into combat during World War II. They operated…

I borrowed shamelessly from my grandmother’s youth and from my own Pennsylvania heritage in creating Rose, the heroine of Rose Under Fire.  I made her a middle-class American girl on purpose: I wanted to give today’s readers a feeling for…