The Journey Back: Sequel to the Newbery Honor Book The Upstairs Room - Softcover
The Second World War is over. Annie and her sister Sini, who have been hiding from the Germans for almost three years, are free again. They leave the hamlet of Usselo and the Oosterveld family that had sheltered them and return to their hometown. Their father also survived as did their sister, Rachel. The Journey Back tells of what can happen to members of a family, Jews in this case, when reunion demonstrates they no longer know each other. The book speaks for all people at all times and is as moving as its predecessor, The Upstairs Room.
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Johanna Reiss was born and brought up in Holland. After she graduated from college, she taught elementary school. In 1955 she came to America, married, and has raised her two daughters in New York City. Reiss travels throughout the US visiting schools to talk about the Holocaust and give readings from The Upstairs Room and The Journey Back.
Grades 6-10--Johanna Reiss' moving sequel (HarperCollins, pap. 1987) to The Upstairs Room (HarperCollins, 1972) is a vivid testimony to all whose lives were changed forever by World War II. Narrated by the author, this compelling story of a Jewish family struggling to reunite after three years of separation and hiding from the Nazis becomes a very personal account of a young girl's coming of age in war torn Holland. This simple dramatization is poignant and heartwarming as Annie de Leeuw and her older sister, Sini, bid farewell to the kind family who hid them. Now it is time to pick up the pieces of their former life as they rejoin their father and another older sister. But their widowed father is remarried and their sister Rachel has become a devout Christian. Once again, life has turned upside down for Annie as she makes her own journey back. This is a superb performance and an essential purchase for all libraries.
Celeste Steward, Contra Costa County Library, Clayton, CA
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Celeste Steward, Contra Costa County Library, Clayton, CA
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisheriUniverse
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0595430503
- ISBN 13 9780595430505
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages226
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