Discarded library book Mylar wrapped cover Viking Books, 1973, 119 pages "As others are tempted by the Devil, so I was tempted by God." So begins this moving novel set in the incredible years from 1939 to 1945. The "little girl" of the title is French. And Jewish. As the tide of anti-Semitism rises inexorably around her, she tries to cope, to conform, to survive. Hers is an old and well-integrated family, whose ties with France are long and proud, but, like the world around her, young Monique's family is crumbling: the family cotton mill is lost in a gambling game by her uncle; her parents divorce. Romanti-cally, obsessively, doubtless in search of a security she has found nowhere else, she turns to God: not the vengeful God of the Old Testament, but the Christian God of love and mercy.