The Final Journey - Hardcover

Pausewang, Gudrun; Crampton, Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670864560 ISBN 13: 9780670864560

Publisher: Puffin, 1996

Synopsis

Alice is eleven years old, and it is wartime. She is on a train with no seats, no lights, no sanitary facilities. Her parents and her grandmother are missing, and Alice doesn't know where she is going. Maybe she will get to play outside again, maybe she will see her parents. But as the train rolls on, Alice begins to realize that just when you think things can't possibly get any worse, they do. "No reader will be immune to the plight of these people, powerless in the face of overwhelming evil."-- "Kirkus Reviews"

About this title

About the Author:

Gudrun Pausewang is Germany's leading writer for teenagers. She deals with political issues and is an activist herself, passionately committed to the struggle for human rights and a better world.
The translator, Patricia Crampton, is renowned for her outstanding translation of European fiction. She received the Eleanor Farjeon award in recognition of her services to the world of children's books.

Synopsis:

Alice, a German Jewish girl, has been protected by her family from the knowledge about the fate of the Jews in war-torn Germany. As her August journey on a cattle truck to Auschwitz begins, she starts to understand why she has been kept in hiding for so long.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0670864560
• ISBN 13: 9780670864560
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160