![]() ![]() Reiss lives with her daughters in New York City, they make frequent visits to Holland to visit Mrs. And out of those feelings came The Journey Back, a story of the aftermath of the Second World War."Though Mrs. I know this to be true of myself, and of others. They are strong, too, but wars leave emotional scars that take a long time to heal, generations perhaps. From a political point of view, the war is over, but in another sense it has not really ended. The Journey Back chronicles the difficulty of post war Holland and the adjustment not only for the country, but for those who are now strugglin The author's previous work was a Newbery honor book which told her story (via the character of Annie de Leeuw) of hiding in an attic for three years while Hitler's evil forces hunted down Jews like animals. `The fighting has stopped' `Peace treaty signed,' newspapers announce at the conclusion of every war. Reiss writes that soon after she had finished Tie Upstairs Room, she found "there was still something I wanted to say, something that was as meaningful to me as the story I had told in the first book, the story of a war. Her first book for children, The Upstairs Room, was a Newbery Honor Book, an American Library Association Notable Children's Book, and a Jane Addams Peace Association Honor Book, and it won the Jewish Book Council Juvenile Book Award and the Buxtehuder Bulle, a prestigious German children's book award.Mrs. After she was graduated from college, she taught elementary school for several years before coming to the United States to live. Johanna Reiss was born and brought up in Holland. ![]() This classic autobiographical novel is a strong choice for classroom sharing and independent reading. There, Annie and Sini would struggle to hold on to hope-separated from their family and confined to one tiny room-as a frightful and seemingly endless war raged on outside their window. Annie and her sister Sini, who have been hiding from the Germans for almost three years, are free. For two years they hid in the cramped upstairs room of the Oostervelds’s remote farmhouse. Most people thought the war wouldn’t last long, but Annie knew that if she wanted to stay alive, she would have to go into hiding.įortunately, a Gentile family, the Oostervelds, offered refuge to Annie and her older sister, Sini. Buy The Journey Back: Sequel To The Newbery Honor. Thirteen-year-old Annie de Leeuw and her sister have spent almost three. Because she was Jewish, the occupation put her in grave danger. The Journey Back: Sequel To The Newbery Honor Book The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss. The Journey Back audiobook, by Johanna Reiss. For thirteen-year-old Annie de Leeuw and her sister Sini, Almost three years of hiding from the Germans in the upstairs room of a remote farmhouse have also ended. When the German army occupied Holland in 1940, Annie was only eight years old. How does it feel to leave the people you've grown to love - and go back to a family you no longer know Holland,1945 - World War II has finally ended. Winner of the Jewish Book Council Children’s Book AwardĪ classic WWII survivor story based on award-winning author Johanna Reiss’s own childhood during the Holocaust. ![]()
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