Night Journey

Description

Thirteen-year-old Rachel dreads the afternoons she has to spend with her great- grandmother, Nana Sashie-until Sashie begins to reminisce about her childhood in Russia and Rachel finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of memories. As the events and characters of Sashie's past come to life, Rachel discovers a distant country and time, a time when Jews were forced to serve in the Czar's armies or were murdered in pogroms, a time when nine-year-old Sashie devised a wonderful plan to save her family from danger.

First Sentence

"CAN I touch your cheek, Nana Sashie?"

Subjects

Other Editions

• Night JourneyTandem Library2005-03-01
• The night journeyF. Warne1981-01-01
• The night journeyWarne1982-01-01
• LA Huida/the Night JourneyPaperbackEdiciones Sm1985-09-01
• Night JourneyPenguin Publishing Group1986-01-01
• The night journeyPuffin Books1986-01-01