num_pages: 120
description: In 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan, marked "Hana Brady, May 16, 1931." The center's curator searches for clues to young Hana and her family, whose happy life in a small Czech town was turned upside down by the invasion of the Nazis.
language: English
title: Hana's Suitcase: A True Story
titlecomplete: Hana's Suitcase: A True Story
characters: Hana Brady
genres: Historical, Biography, War, Nonfiction, Jewish, Middle Grade, Holocaust, Childrens, History, World War II
ratings_count: 9314
places: Canada, Slovakia, Japan
series: Holocaust Remembrance
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Sydney Taylor Book Award
category: Older Readers, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: CLA Book of the Year for Children Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Hackmatack Children's Choice Award
category: English Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
publisher: Albert Whitman & Company