White Bird : A Novel

Sara Blum lives a comfortable childhood in Vichy France until the Nazi occupation tears her family apart. A classmate, Julien, and his family risk their own safety to hide her, and together the two find small pockets of beauty and connection amid constant danger.

White Bird traces the story of Julian Albans's grandmother — first introduced in Auggie & Me — reworked from Palacio's graphic novel into prose. It stands on its own as a World War II survival story about the cost, and the reach, of one family's courage.