A young boy, searching vainly for his mother in post-war Vienna, is befriended by a man on crutches and together they find hope for the future.

Readers of Anne of Green Gables and Hattie Ever After will love following Stephie’s story, which takes place during World War II and began with A Faraway Island and continued with The Lily Pond.   Three years ago, Stephie and her younger sister, Nellie, escaped the Nazis in Vienna and fled to an island in Sweden, where they were taken in by different families. Now sixteen-year-old Stephie is going to school on the mainland. Stephie enjoys her studies, and rooming with her school friend, May. But life is only getting more complicated as she gets older.   Stephie might lose the grant money that is funding her education. Her old friend Verra is growing up too fast. And back on the island, Nellie wants to be adopted by her foster family. Stephie, on the other hand, can’t stop thinking about her parents, who are in a Nazi camp in Austria. If only the war would end. . . .   Like the deep sea, Stephie’s life is filled with danger and darkness, but also with beauty and hope as she learns to stand up for her beliefs and be true to herself.A CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book of the Year*"A rich blend of emotional truths."--Kirkus Reviews, Starred*"This novel about coming of age during a complicated, tragic time in history is both delicate and poignant."--Publisher's Weekly, Starred"Thor . . . deftly balances the sisters’ everyday concerns with the greater psychological aspects of being refugees."--School Library Journal "The novel’s strength lies in its rich cast of secondary characters whose stories bring wartime Sweden to life."--Booklist"The present tense and a limited third-person narration that reflects Stephie’s every thought and emotion give the story unusual immediacy, nuance, and impact."--The Hornbook Magazine “Deep Sea and the story of the Steiner sisters is a much-needed voice in the sea of World War II novels for youth.”—VOYA Praise for A Faraway IslandWinner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award"[A] welcome addition to the canon of WWII stories."--The Hornbook Magazine, StarredPraise for The Lily Pond A Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book"This distinguished Holocaust story will resonate."--Booklist From the Hardcover edition.

While escaping the horrors of war-torn France, refugee children struggle to overcome the misconception that their parents are abandoning them

Two Jewish sisters leave Austria during WWII/Holocaust and find refuge in Sweden.It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna—12-year-old Stephie Steiner and 8-year-old Nellie—are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will go to America. But as the world war intensifies, the girls remain, each with her own host family, on a rugged island off the western coast of Sweden.Nellie quickly settles in to her new surroundings. She’s happy with her foster family and soon favors the Swedish language over her native German. Not so for Stephie, who finds it hard to adapt; she feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who’s as cold and unforgiving as the island itself. Her main worry, though, is her parents—and whether she will ever see them again.From the Hardcover edition.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Living as refugees in Japan in 1947 while trying to locate their missing father, 13-year-old Yoko and her older brother and sister must endure a bad fire, injury, and false charges of arson, theft and murder.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Living as refugees in Japan in 1947 while trying to locate their missing father, 13-year-old Yoko and her older brother and sister must endure a bad fire, injury, and false charges of arson, theft and murder.

When twelve-year-old Hans, his father and younger sister are pursued by the Nazis from Switzerland into France, they end up helping the locals resist the Germans and rescue a downed American pilot.