A Faraway Island

2011-09-13 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Annika Thor
Release : 2011-09-13
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 953/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Faraway Island by : Annika Thor

Download or read book A Faraway Island written by Annika Thor. This book was released on 2011-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Jewish sister 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 seven-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. 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 unforgiving as the island itself. It's no wonder Stephie doesn't let on that the most popular girl at school becomes her bitter enemy, or that she endures the wounding slights of certain villagers. Her main worry, though, is her parents—and whether she will ever see them again.

The Faraway Island

2008-09-01 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Dianne Hofmeyr
Release : 2008-09-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 443/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Faraway Island by : Dianne Hofmeyr

Download or read book The Faraway Island written by Dianne Hofmeyr. This book was released on 2008-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a sailor can't bear life on ship any more, he jumps overboard and swims to a big barren rock. There he cares for a half-drowned cockerel and plants rice, hiding away when a boat arrives. The sailors are amazed to see rice growing and keep coming back, leaving plants and game-birds, until the island bursts with tropical fruit and wildlife. But soon the Queen of Portugal hears about it and demands to meet the person responsible.

The Lily Pond

2012-11-13 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Annika Thor
Release : 2012-11-13
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 409/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Lily Pond by : Annika Thor

Download or read book The Lily Pond written by Annika Thor. This book was released on 2012-11-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book and an ALA-ALSC Notable Children’s Book, The Lily Pond continues the story of two Jewish sisters who left Austria during WWII/Holocaust and found refuge in Sweden. A year after Stephie Steiner and her younger sister, Nellie, left Nazi-occupied Vienna, Stephie has finally adapted to life on the rugged Swedish island where her she now lives. But more change awaits Stephie: her foster parents have allowed her to enroll in school on the mainland, in Goteberg. Stephie is eager to go. Not only will she be pursuing her studies, she'll be living in a cultured city again--under the same roof as Sven, the son of the lodgers who rented her foster parents' cottage for the summer. Five years her senior, Sven dazzles Stephie with his charm, his talk of equality, and his anti-Hitler sentiments. Stephie can't help herself--she's falling in love. As she navigates a sea of new emotions, she also grapples with what it means to be beholden to others, with her constant worry about what her parents are enduring back in Vienna, and with the menacing spread of Nazi idealogy, even in Sweden. In these troubled times, her true friends, Stephie discovers, are the ones she least expected.

Deep Sea

2015 Friendship

Author : Annika Thor
Release : 2015
Genre : Friendship
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 858/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Deep Sea by : Annika Thor

Download or read book Deep Sea written by Annika Thor. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly four years after leaving Vienna to escape the Nazis, Stephie Steiner, now sixteen, and her sister Nellie, eleven, are still living in Sweden, worrying about their parents and striving to succeed in school, and at odds with each other despite their mutual love.

Islandborn

2018-03-13 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Junot Díaz
Release : 2018-03-13
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 951/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Islandborn by : Junot Díaz

Download or read book Islandborn written by Junot Díaz. This book was released on 2018-03-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination. A 2019 Pura Belpré Honor Book for Illustration Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places. So when Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can't remember The Island—she left when she was just a baby. But with the help of her family and friends, and their memories—joyous, fantastical, heartbreaking, and frightening—Lola's imagination takes her on an extraordinary journey back to The Island. As she draws closer to the heart of her family's story, Lola comes to understand the truth of her abuela's words: “Just because you don't remember a place doesn't mean it's not in you.” Gloriously illustrated and lyrically written, Islandborn is a celebration of creativity, diversity, and our imagination's boundless ability to connect us—to our families, to our past and to ourselves.

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