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Gr 5–8—This follow-up to Watts's Good-bye Marianne is a fictionalized account inspired by the author's real-life experience with the Kindertransport, a heroic rescue operation that brought Jewish children to Great Britain prior to World War II. Eleven-year-old Marianne flees Austria, arriving in London in December 1938. Though she trusts her family's decision to send her away to safety, it doesn't make the process any less painful as she struggles to adjust to a new country and sponsors who never seem pleased with her...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The Kindertransport was a rescue operation that evacuated children from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia to the UK in the years just prior to World War II. While Marianne is fortunate to be one of the first couple of hundred children to arrive in London, she doesn't feel lucky. She is taken in by a wealthy woman who uses her as a maid. Then, too, she misses her mother terribly, and hopes they will be reunited at any moment. Whe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More