As in the first book, there are suggestions that Susan - Ada and her brother Jamie's adopted mother - was once part of a couple with her late friend Becky, but it's never made explicit. There are strong messages about family, community, cooperation, kindness, and having the courage to think for yourself, as well as some about horses and how to care for them. Her triumphant World War II journey continues in this sequel to the Newbery Honorwinning The War that Saved My Life. There's lots of World War II historical detail: plane crashes, bombed neighborhoods, and a Jewish character's grandmother dies in a concentration camp, plus there's rationing, blackout curtains, keeping watch for bombers, and a boy on a bicycle who keeps delivering telegrams revealing that someone else has been killed in the war. Like the classic heroines of Sarah, Plain and Tall, Little Women, and Anne of Green Gables, Ada is a fighter for the ages. As in the first book, Ada is relatable and cheer-worthy as she deals with being loved and cared for for the first time in her life - and not being sure how much to trust it.
Parents need to know that The War I Finally Won, the sequel to Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's Newbery Honor winner The War That Saved My Life, continues the first-person narrative of abused slum child Ada, 11, who's adjusting to her new life in an English village during World War II.
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