The Paper Girl of Paris by Jordyn Taylor

Paul aids in translating it, and the truth is more than Alice could have ever expected. With the help of her new French friend, Paul, Alice searches her grandmother’s old apartment, which no one has been in since the 1940’s, and finds Adalyn’s diary. Now, on top of trying to understand her mother’s depression and her father’s denial, Alice is determined to figure out why Chloe hid her past. Having never known much about her grandmother’s childhood, Alice is surprised when Chloe wills her a secret Parisian apartment. The story is told from two perspectives- Alice in present day and Adalyn during WW2, the link between them being Chloe Bonhomme, Alice’s late grandmother and Adalyn’s sister. THE PAPER GIRL OF PARIS by Jordyn Taylor is a new young adult novel that is both a contemporary and historical fiction. As the war goes on, Adalyn finds herself having to make more and more compromises-to her safety, to her reputation, and to her relationships with the people she loves the most. But keeping up the appearance of being a much-admired socialite while working to undermine the Nazis is more complicated than she could have imagined. When she meets Luc, the dashing and enigmatic leader of a resistance group, Adalyn feels she finally has a chance to fight back. Everywhere she looks, there are Nazis, and every day brings a new horror of life under the Occupation. Then: Sixteen-year-old Adalyn doesn’t recognize Paris anymore. However, the more time she spends digging through the mysteries of the past, the more she realizes there are secrets in the present that her family is still refusing to talk about. With the help of Paul, a charming Parisian student, she sets out to uncover the truth.

Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once mentioned the family she left behind when she moved to America after World War II. An apartment that has been locked for more than seventy years. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. Now: Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn’t there for pastries and walks along the Seine.

The Paper Girl of Paris by Jordyn Taylor