A Place Not Home
by Eva Wiseman
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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 show more 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? 1998 New York Public Library's Book for the Teen Age Catalog and Exhibit Award show lessTags
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- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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