This book is taking place in world war II in Sweden. A girl named Stephanie Steiner and her little sister, Nellie Steiner have to leave Sienna, there home because they are Jewish. They both are very sad that they have to leave their parents. It starts on a bus making their journey to Sweden. But lets skip that and go straight to when they arrive. ...soon after they arrive, a women named aunt Marta. Aunt Marta is married to a happy man named uncle Evert, now part of the reason they decided to be their foster parents is because they used to have a kid. But Stephie doesn't know that till later on in the book. Nellie and Stephie have to learn Swedish, because they only speak German. after learning some words, Nellie is taken to a woman named auntie Alma. Nellie is scared because she is being separated from her sister! the day after Stephie goes over to auntie Alma's house because Nellie is sobbing. Nellie tells her, "please take me home! I wet my bed!" Stephie has to explain for quite some time using her body to auntie Alma. Now Nellie wet her bed because she had to go to the bathroom, but she forgot she was safe from the soldiers. So auntie Alma puts a chamber pot under Nellies bed...
A Faraway Island
By Annika Thor
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 4 - 8 | Grades 3 - 5 | n/a | 4.4 | 53969 |
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.
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.
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN-13: 9780375844959
ISBN-10: 0375844953
Published on 9/13/2011
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 256