Key Selling Points: Kathy Kacer has won many awards for her writing, including the Forest of Reading Silver Birch Award, the Red Maple Award, the Hackmatack, the Jewish Book Award, the Vine Award, and many others. Her books have been sold internationally and even made into a play. Under the Iron Bridgefeatures a real group of rebel teens from the late 1930's through WWII: the Edelweiss Pirates. This youth organization was founded in direct opposition to the Hitler Youth's takeover of sports and leisure activities for young people, but unlike the HY they allowed young men and women to participate together. They moved from leisure activities to sabotaging the Hitler Youth and Gestapo during WWII, and many were caught and questioned. Most were released, but some were sent to concentration camps, and 12 members were tried and hanged in 1944 for planning an attack on Gestapo headquarters. The book was released in time for the anniversary of Kristallnacht (November 9, 1938), which features prominently in the book. Kathy Kacer has written, co-authored, and edited over 30 books for young readers.

She has dedicated her career to sharing stories of the Second World War and the Holocaust. Second Story Press has sold over 180,000 copies of Kathy's books in North America, and they are consistently among our bestsellers.