Historical FictionYoung Adult
A Faraway Island (A Faraway Island #1)
1996·249 pages
Two Jewish sisters flee Nazi-occupied Austria in 1939 and adapt to separation and island life in neutral Sweden while awaiting their parents.
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Two Jewish sisters flee Nazi-occupied Austria in 1939 and adapt to separation and island life in neutral Sweden while awaiting their parents.
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Two Jewish sisters leave Austria during WWII/Holocaust and find refuge in Sweden. It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna--12-year-old Stephie Steiner and 8-year-old Nellie--are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will go to America. But as the world war intensifies, the girls remain, each with her own host family, on a rugged island off the western coast of Sweden. Nellie quickly settl...
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Background WWII context with implied peril and family separation
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Jewish identity and persecution central to premise
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WWII refugee experience and Nazi persecution as core context
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Family separation, refugee displacement, and emotional isolation depicted throughout
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