num_pages: 160
description: Thirteen-year-old Rachel dreads the afternoons she has to spend with her great- grandmother, Nana Sashie-until Sashie begins to reminisce about her childhood in Russia and Rachel finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of memories. As the events and characters of Sashie's past come to life, Rachel discovers a distant country and time, a time when Jews were forced to serve in the Czar's armies or were murdered in pogroms, a time when nine-year-old Sashie devised a wonderful plan to save her family from danger. . . .
language: English
title: The Night Journey
titlecomplete: The Night Journey
genres: Jewish, Middle Grade, Russia, Historical Fiction, Historical, Childrens, Judaism, Young Adult, Family, Fiction
ratings_count: 397
places: Russian Federation
series: Sashie
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Jewish Book Award
category: Children's Literature, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Sydney Taylor Book Award
category: Older Readers
publisher: Puffin Books