It’s 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move from the tiny German village she’s lived in all her life to a place that seems as foreign as the moon: Chicago, Illinois. And she will be doing it alone. This dramatic and chilling novel about...
In this sequel to Happy Harper Thursdays, Harper finally sees her grandmother again, now that a vaccine is available for the nasty bug that kept them apart. But, instead of feeling happy and excited, Harper is angry at Mama Fern because she stayed aw...
A Junior Library Guild spring 2017 selection. Edith Westerfeld, an 89-year-old Holocaust refugee, wonders if the memory of the Nazis murdering her parents, along with millions of other victims, will outlive the survivors. Now, 76 years after ...
A 2018 Junior Library Guild selection At the age of 12, Gerda Katz fled Nazi Germany and came to America all by herself. Decades before the label gained recognition, she became what's now known as an unaccompanied minor. Gerda's story of family separ...