Ever since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma's stories about Briar Rose. But a promise Rebecca makes to her dying grandmother leads her on a remarkable journey to uncover her grandmother's astonishing claim: I am Briar Rose. Her journey leads her to the brutality and horror of the Nazi holocaust in war time Poland, where the wall of thorns becomes a barbed-wire prison and the sleeping princess is both victim and heroine. Suggested level: secondary.