Title: The long way home
First published: 1959
Description: "You must go now, Chris.  It will be only days before the Peoples' Police discover who you are!"
When war orphan Chris narrowly escapes arrest by the Communists, his Aunt Sabine knows the time has come to send him from East Germany to America.  Alone, he goes "under the wire" to find freedom--and to face a set of problems he doesn't expect.  Larry, the ex-serviceman who befriended Chris as a baby, wants him for a son.  But Denise, Larry's wife, isn't so sure...
Subjects: WW II, escape to America, young adult, Juvenile fiction, German Americans, Orphans, Germans, Fiction
Places: East Germany
Time periods: World War II
LC classification: PZ7.B428 Lo