Parent Guide
Twelve-year-old Stephie and her little sister Nellie are sent from Nazi-occupied Vienna to foster homes on a tiny, remote island off the coast of Sweden. Nellie picks up the language easily and soon feels at home, but Stephie finds it difficult to make friends at school and to live up to strict Aunt Marta’s standards. Although there is the tension of Stephie’s worry about her parents, for the most part this is a universal story of a bookish girl trying to fit into a new environment. The island backdrop and Stephie’s stern foster mother and kindly foster father are reminiscent of the classic Anne of Green Gables. The author is Swedish-Jewish and this is the first book in a series.
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