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Rescue by Jennifer A. Nielsen follows Meg Kenyon, a 12-year-old in Nazi-occupied France, as she embarks on a perilous mission to rescue her captured British spy father. With her mother and Captain Stewart injured, Meg must decode her father’s messages and allies with the Durand family to elude Nazi detection, crossing dangerous terrain to reach safety. The novel explores themes such as Appearance Versus Reality and The Moral Challenges of Resistance Efforts. The book includes depictions of wartime scenarios, espionage, Nazi ideology, antisemitism, anti-gay bias, and ethnophobia.