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Yearling Books, 1995-25-04

Night Crossing

Night Crossing

First Bullseye Book

Karen Ackerman, Author

Paperback

9780679870401

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In 1938, having begun to feel the persecution that all Jews are experiencing in their Austrian city, Clara and her family escape over the mountains into Switzerland.
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Keywords and Themes: Beginner • Family • General (see also headings under Social Themes) • Historical • Holocaust • JUV013000 • JUV016060 • JUV039090 • JUV043000 • Juvenile Fiction • New Experience • Readers • Social Themes

Age Range • 8-12

Pages • 64

Subjects • Holocaust • Jewish (1939-1945) • Jews • Austria

Categories • Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Beginner • Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Holocaust • Juvenile Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes) • Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | New Experience

Illus. in black-and-white. It's hard to leave your home and friends, but the
Nazis have invaded Clara's native Austria, and her Jewish family is no longer
safe. Clara and her family take only what they can carry and travel by night to
the Swiss border, where they hope to escape to freedom. Soldiers are
everywhere, and it is Clara's heroism that carries the family across the
border, their lives and few precious possessions intact. "An excellent
fictional introduction to the Holocaust."-- "School Library Journal."
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