Summary
In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arres... Full description
Summary: |
In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works |
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Item Description: |
Includes a reading guide. Includes excerpt from Rescue. "This book was originally published in hardcover by Scholastic Press in 2018"--Title page verso |
Physical Description: |
385 pages, 17 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
Audience: |
008-012 |
Awards: |
Rebecca Caudill Award nominee, 2021 |
ISBN: |
9781338148503 1338148508 |
Author Notes: |
(Bowker Author Biography) |