En ö I Havet (7 books in series)
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review 1: Just finished listening to this audio version as we continue our journey home from our summer vacation. This very young adult story deals with a 13 year old Jewish girl sent to live in Sweden by her parents during WWII. Stephenie has aspirations to be A doctor like her father. ...
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review 1: I listened to the audio translation of this book. At first, I was going to give this book a "2" rating. Poor Stephie: she is the victim of constant bullying and brutality through the first half of the book. This brutality includes having her braids set on fire with a candle. ...
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review 1: Translated from Swedish, this is the story of two Jewish girls who are evacuated from Austria to Sweden just prior to WWII. They are expecting to be there among strangers for only a short while, just until their parents get immigration visas to the U.S. The girls must learn a new...
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review 1: Have listened to this earlier, but reading it for the first time now! I just love these books. They are truly amazing.(En ö i havet #1) Den här serien är helt underbar. Visserligen är det en bok skriven för yngre, men det gör verkligen ingenting. Historien om Steffi och Nelli som...
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review 1: Another Batchelder Award winner (award for translation), and an excellent book about culture shock. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna are taken in by families on a remote Swedish island. The sisters hope to be reunited with their parents when they are all granted visas to the USA, ...
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review 1: This is the second of the series by Annika Thor, on the journey and lives of these two sisters Stephanie and Nellie who are from Vienna who had to leave their parents and old life behind to begin a new one separated and learn a different language and culture. The book continues o...
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review 1: Ce récit aurait pu un quasi-coup de coeur. Malheureusement le jeune de Nelli m'a beaucoup agacé, certes ces réactions sont tout à fait digne d'une enfant de son âge, mais je n'ai pu les supporter. En revanche, Steffi qui a 12 ans, possède une remarquable maturité pour son âge. T...