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A Faraway Island audiobook
- By: Annika Thor
- Narrator: Amy Rubinate
- Category: Historical, Holocaust, Juvenile Fiction
- Length: 6 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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A Faraway Island Audiobook Summary
Two Jewish sisters leave Austria during WWII/Holocaust and find refuge in Sweden.
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.
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A Faraway Island Full Details
| Narrator | Amy Rubinate |
| Length | 6 hours 0 minutes |
| Author | Annika Thor |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 27, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780307746474 |
Subjects
The publisher of the A Faraway Island is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: WWII, World War 2, Second World War, Holocaust, sweden war, refugees, Kindertransport, 1939, Vienna, Nazis, concentration camp, foster parents, rosh hashanah, sisters, historical fiction for children 9-12, nazi, world war ii, rosh hashanah kids, newberry award books ages 9-12, wwii, family, world war 2, ww2, european history, kids books ages 9-12, realistic fiction books for kids 9-12, books for 11 year old girls, books for 9 year old girls, books for 10 year old girls, books for kids age 9 12, 5th grade books, Juvenile Fiction, Historical, Holocaust, Juvenile Fiction, Historical, Europe, Juvenile Fiction, Family, Siblings The BISAC Subject Code is Historical, Holocaust, Juvenile Fiction
Additional info
The publisher of the A Faraway Island is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Listening Library. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780307746474.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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