A Faraway Island
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In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to flee 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.
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A Faraway Island submitted by Smiles on July 18, 2011, 1:35pm Nellie and Stephie are sent to Sweden and away from he Nazis. There, Nellie settles in quickly and soon adjusts to the lifestyle. Stephie, however, does not like her new family.
PUBLISHED
New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 247 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 680
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780385736176
0385736177
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Schenck, Linda.
SUBJECTS
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
Jews -- Sweden -- Fiction.
Islands -- Fiction.
Sweden -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.