A faraway island
By: Annika Thor ; translated from the Swedish by Linda Schenck.
Contributors: Schenck, Linda.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Juvenile fiction; World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Fiction; Refugees -- Fiction; Sisters -- Fiction; Jews -- Sweden -- Fiction; Islands -- Fiction; Sweden -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction; Fiction
Work titles: En ö i havet.
Description: In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to flee 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.