Meanwhile, Lexi's friends end up invading Ursula's house and injuring her, and then they set their sites on something higher setting fire to the neighborhood synagogue. She finally realized that the ideas that Hitler promoted were insane, and that she herself was part of that insanity, at least for a while. It's a shame she felt for her entire life.

Finally, she is partly responsible for the Gestapo taking the 'good' Jewish friends of hers. At first she is friends with a Jewish family, believing that there are 'good' Jews and that Hitler is talking only about the 'bad' Jews, but things get worse. Ursula, meanwhile, is remembering when she was a young girl in Germany and marched in pro-Hitler marches. She ends up being chased and takes refuge in Ursula's home where she meets her. One night she's involved in spray-painting a Jewish synagogue. She has shaved her head and had a Nazi tatoo put on to the left side of her head. Lexi has some major difficulties at home and has fallen in with a group of skinheads who espouse the philosophy of hating non-whites and Jews. The two main characters are Lexi, a young teenager who is skinhead, and Ursula, and older woman who once lived in Germany. Williams, is an examination of the problem of anti-Semitism in today's world, relating this to the skinhead movement. For both, the consequences of their actions become achingly real. Williams allows the reader to see the world through the eyes of two one in the present, whose dissatisfaction with her life leads her to flirt with the edges of danger, and one from the past. In this suspenseful and all too realistic novel, Laura E. When she meets Ursula Zeidler, an old woman with a terrifying secret, Lexi sets off a chain of events that places everyone she cares about in danger and leads her to make the most important decisions of her life. But Lexi begins to wonder just how safe she is when the group begins to do things that make her increasingly uneasy. She feels more at home sneaking out to meet and make plans with her friends than she does in her own home. She knows the tattoo on her head-of a swastika-and the heavy boots that blister her feet are part of belonging. Lexi Jordan knows the names her friends use to talk about themselves, but she isn’t quite sure what they mean.

The Spider's Web by Laura E. Williams