I can understand your wish to encourage your daughter's reading. However, there is a side of me which says, 'No. This is not a lightweight topic.'
I did recently read Leslie Wilson's 'Last Train to Kummersdorf' - which is about the very end of WW2 and I felt that this was a very honest - and historically accurate - book, conveying Germany as the war came to an end.
And you can show her this poem, if you like.
Our Hunger
We have been hungry. We were in distress.
And what food did they provide to comfort us?
One single dumpling. Thin soup – just half a bowl.
Enough nourishment to make our cravings grow.
We stand in line for three hours. Half-dead
on our feet, we wait. We are not well fed.
We have been hungry. We swallowed distrust.
Because how long do you last on pride and a crust?
And they went, ‘Yes, help yourself to a loaf.
Have some margarine, some sugar. You can take both
in exchange for shoes and clothes.’ That’s what they said.
We surrender possessions. We are not well fed.
We have been hungry. We experienced pain
Each day we ransacked the shelter, looking again
and again for cabbage leaves, peelings, scraps.
We counted ourselves lucky to find any of that.
Cleaning up, polishing off every last shred.
Not one crumb gets rejected. We are not well fed.