Synopsis
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 settles in to her new surroundings. She’s happy with her foster family and soon favors the Swedish language over her native German. Not so for Stephie, who finds it hard to adapt; she feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who’s as cold and unforgiving as the island itself. Her main worry, though, is her parents—and whether she will ever see them again.
Review
Ah the love I have for this book series! I got them as a gift on christmas when I was a young girl and I read them all day until I have finished them. And then I started all over again.
I love how Annika has written a dark part of our history in such a way so younger kids can take it in as well because I belive it´s so important to know your history so it won´t repeat itself.
I love this book series so much and I really hope people take the chance and read them. They are easy to read as well so if you don´t feel like reading a massive book I can highly recommend them! So to finish this review of…have I said how much I LOVE them?
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