You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl From Ukraine by Yeva Skalietska

Thank you @RandomTTours and @Yeva Skalietska for being part of this tour and reviewing this book. What can i say about this book but wow and it was heartbreaking to read about Yeva Skalietska life in the war of Ukraine. I cant image what her and everyone else in ukraine are still going through. I really like the front cover its bright and catches your attention. I would say this book is for teenages and above . The chapters are short and have pictures of Ukriane and Yeva. I feel like this was a real eye open reading this book seeing what people are going through over there especially through a childs eye as well. This is written in disry form of her Yeva Skalietska life in the Ukraine . They are all so brave and i am glad Yeva findly left Ukraine from the help if channel 4 news it made me look at them in different way a good way . I am going to pass this on to my daughter because it will be instresting and inspirational read and to see what people are going through there . 5 stars Blurb On Thursday 24th February 2022, 12-year-old Ukrainian girl Yeva Skalietska is woken by the sound of explosions. Though there have been rumblings and rumours, few truly believe that war will break out between Russia and Ukraine. And yet – it has. What follows are twelve days in Ukraine that change 12-year-old Yeva’s life forever. Yeva and her granny rush to take shelter from the missile attacks in a dusty, crowded basement. When the situation worsens, they need to find somewhere safer to stay, so they make their way to a friend’s house in a different area of the city. But the conflict rages all around them and Yeva struggles to keep calm over the continual sound of explosions and shelling. Eventually they take the difficult decision to head to Western Ukraine. It’s there, in a makeshift shelter in a school hall, that Yeva meets the team of UK news reporters who will alter the course of her life. She tells them she is writing a diary. The poise and maturity of Yeva’s account are striking, and the crew feature her in several news articles. They help Yeva and her granny cross the border into Hungary and, ultimately, to find a place to live in Dublin, where they are welcomed and cared for by their host, school teacher Catherine Flanagan.