num_pages: 178
description: Life in Communist Hungary isn't easy for thirteen-year-old Nelly. Food is scarce and so are clothes. But she has great friends and a special boy she likes so the hardships are bearable.When the Hungarian Revolution erupts in 1956 Nelly's world crumbles. Along with the Revolution comes a new tide of anti-Semitism. Nelly's family is Jewish and her parents are convinced that the family must flee. Everything she cares about - her cozy room her favourite books and her closest friends - will have to stay behind. There's not time even to say good-bye.Nelly's adventures during the family's harrowing escape to freedom are by turns funny and sad. Will she ever find a place to call home?1998 New York Public Library's Book for the Teen Age Catalog and Exhibit Award
language: English
title: A Place Not Home
publisher: Fitzhenry and Whiteside