Suzy was an American girl who is blind to what was happening in the other countries. Leah is a german- born jew refugee who had escaped the tragedy that is the Holocaust. The literature that we are reading is a pair of diaries written by the girls. The reading is put together by Jane Yolen. The diaries show each of the girl's perspective. Suzy is a young girl who is curious about the lives of the refugees. She feels as though the children are aliens. There is one girl that seems to stand out further than the rest.Suzy later learns that this girl is named Leah. Suzy thinks that Leah is a very unusual refugee, as she states, “ Except for this one girl, with two dark braids and bangs nearly covering her eyes. She was just standing to one side,
