Title: The Night Journey
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.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Jews, Juvenile fiction, Jews, fiction, Soviet union, history, fiction, Children's fiction
Places: Russia, Soviet Union
Time periods: Nicholas II, 1894-1917