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"First, that is a lie. You are not trying to take a train to Germany. Second, your papers are false. Do you think you can trump up false papers and just walk onto one of our trains?"
It's World War Two in Amsterdam. Lena leaves her starving family to travel by train with her friend Sofie to Almelo, a town close to the German border, in search of food. It's a risky plan. The girls have false papers and are quickly pulled off the train by German soldiers. Only by fluke do they get back on again-with the help of Albert, one of the soldiers. After Lena discovers that the train had also been used to transport Jews to concentration camps, she fears her new friendship with the well-meaning Albert may lead her into more danger. Sofie, too, befriends a soldier, a relationship that quickly turns serious and has unfortunate consequences for both girls.
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Review:
"De Vries has done a masterful job of creating a believable world peopled with characters whose loyalties are agonizingly divided between family, friends and nation."--Quill & Quire
"An exemplary young adult novel, with a quick-paced and interesting plot line, characters who involve the reader on many levels and a setting which transports the reader to a different time and place. . . . Hunger Journeys is historical fiction at its best."--CM Magazine (Canada)
De Vries has done a masterful job of creating a believable world peopled with characters whose loyalties are agonizingly divided between family, friends and nation. --Quill & Quire"
An exemplary young adult novel, with a quick-paced and interesting plot line, characters who involve the reader on many levels and a setting which transports the reader to a different time and place. . . . Hunger Journeys is historical fiction at its best. --CM Magazine (Canada)"
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"An exemplary young adult novel, with a quick-paced and interesting plot line, characters who involve the reader on many levels and a setting which transports the reader to a different time and place. . . . Hunger Journeys is historical fiction at its best."--CM Magazine (Canada)
De Vries has done a masterful job of creating a believable world peopled with characters whose loyalties are agonizingly divided between family, friends and nation. --Quill & Quire"
An exemplary young adult novel, with a quick-paced and interesting plot line, characters who involve the reader on many levels and a setting which transports the reader to a different time and place. . . . Hunger Journeys is historical fiction at its best. --CM Magazine (Canada)"
MAGGIE DE VRIES's novel, Hunger Journeys, won the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize and was called "historical fiction at its best" by CM magazine. She has written seven other works for young readers, as well as Missing Sarah, a memoir about her sister, a victim of serial killer Robert Pickton, which was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award. A former children's book editor and a writer-in-residence for the Vancouver Public Library, she now focuses on her own writing and teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia and. She lives in Vancouver.
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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0062313517
- ISBN 13 9780062313515
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages278
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