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Genre/Form: | Historical fiction Mildred L. Batchelder book award: Winner Fiction Juvenile works Juvenile fiction |
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Material Type: | Elementary and junior high school, Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Annika Thor; Linda Schenck |
ISBN: | 9780385736176 0385736177 9780385905909 0385905904 9780375893704 0375893709 9780375844959 0375844953 9780329776121 0329776126 |
OCLC Number: | 310399735 |
Notes: | Companion book: Deep sea. |
Awards: | Mildred L. Batchelder Award for most outstanding children's book in translation, 2010. Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2010. |
Description: | 247 pages ; 22 cm |
Other Titles: | En ö i havet. |
Responsibility: | Annika Thor ; translated from the Swedish by Linda Schenck. |
Abstract:
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.
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