A Faraway Island by Linda Schenck, Annika Thor

249 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction historical young adult emotional inspiring slow-paced

Description

Torn from their homeland, two Jewish sisters 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 mont...

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