Included on the New York Public Library's Best Books for the
Teen Age
Our Choice of the Canadian Children's Book Centre
Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction Honour Book
Ruth Schwartz Award Finalist
Sydney Taylor Book Awards Nominee
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award Finalist
Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award Finalist
Blue Heron Book Award Finalist
Life in Communist Hungary isn't easy for thirteen-year-old Nelly. Food is scarce and so are clothes. But she has great friends and a special boy she likes, so the hardships are bearable.
When the Hungarian Revolution erupts in 1956, Nelly's world crumbles. Along with the Revolution comes a new tide of anti-Semitism. Nelly's family is Jewish, and her parents are convinced that the family must flee. Everything she cares about - her
cozy room, her favourite books, and her closest friends - will have to stay behind. There's not time even to say good-bye.
Nelly's adventures during the family's harrowing escape to freedom are by turns funny
and sad. Will she ever find a place to call home?
Young adult fiction writer Eva Wiseman was born in Hungary and currently lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Eva possesses a Bachelor of Science degree, a Master of Arts degree, and a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Manitoba. She has worked as a journalist for the Winnipeg Free Press and the former Winnipeg Tribune, and has taught English Second Language and GED courses to immigrant women.
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