A faraway island / Annika Thor ; translated from the Swedish by Linda Schenck.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Publication details: New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 247 p. : maps ; 22 cmISBN: - 0385736177
- 0385905904
- 9780385736176
- 9780385905909 (lib bdg)
- Ö i havet. English
- Batchelder Award, 2010.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Thor, Annika | 1 | Available | 33111006213330 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Two Jewish sisters leave Austria during WWII/Holocaust and find refuge in Sweden.
It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna--12-year-old Stephie Steiner and 8-year-old Nellie--are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will go to America. But as the world war intensifies, the girls remain, each with her own host family, on a rugged island off the western coast of Sweden.
Nellie quickly settles in to her new surroundings. She's happy with her foster family and soon favors the Swedish language over her native German. Not so for Stephie, who finds it hard to adapt; she feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who's as cold and unforgiving as the island itself. Her main worry, though, is her parents--and whether she will ever see them again.
In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to join them in fleeing the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.
Batchelder Award, 2010.