The Final JourneyAlice 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" |
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... Ruben , ' are you lucky ! ' She closed one eye and pressed the other to the hole . For the first moment she was dazzled , but then the circular image cleared : hilly meadows , a haystack , the edge of a wood with the long shadows of ...
... Ruben , ' are you lucky ! ' She closed one eye and pressed the other to the hole . For the first moment she was dazzled , but then the circular image cleared : hilly meadows , a haystack , the edge of a wood with the long shadows of ...
Page 36
... Ruben . ' We have watched Struppi twice , ' said David , his nose in the air . Ruben put his arm round him . Alice kept her eyes lowered but Rebekka scrambled across , sat down beside her and began to explain . She spoke very softly ...
... Ruben . ' We have watched Struppi twice , ' said David , his nose in the air . Ruben put his arm round him . Alice kept her eyes lowered but Rebekka scrambled across , sat down beside her and began to explain . She spoke very softly ...
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... Ruben . " There's not much room left . The shit is only a step away . ' ' We are three people less than when we left , ' said Rebek- ka , ' but the dead take up so much room . ' ' Now we have a whole bottle of water again , ' murmured ...
... Ruben . " There's not much room left . The shit is only a step away . ' ' We are three people less than when we left , ' said Rebek- ka , ' but the dead take up so much room . ' ' Now we have a whole bottle of water again , ' murmured ...
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