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It's hard to leave your home and friends, but the Nazis have invaded Clara's native Austria, and her Jewish family is no longer safe. Clara and her family take only what they can carry and travel by night to the Swiss border, where they hope to escape to freedom. Soldiers are everywhere, adn it is Clara's heroism that carries the family across teh border, thier lives adn few precious posessions intact.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 3-4-Clara treasures the two antique dolls that came with her grandmother when the family fled from the pogroms in Russia to Austria. Now the family is planning to escape from Nazi-occupied Austria, and Clara intends to take them with her. When Mama sews her treasured silver candlesticks into the petticoat of her oldest daughter, they make noise and Papa is afraid they will clank and alert the border guards. Clara then suggests hiding the candlesticks in the dolls' straw stuffing since this is their second ``night crossing,'' and they are not afraid. This is a suspenseful escape story written for transitional readers. The danger is clear but not belabored. The stress is on the family's closeness and courage. The dolls and candlesticks are tangible representations of continuity and tradition, which comfort and sustain the family. An epilogue reveals the fate of the Jews who did not escape, including Clara's grandmother. Ackerman's writing is clear and direct; despite its simplicity, it is never banal. This is an excellent fictional introduction to the Holocaust that is slightly easier to read, but for the same audience as, Claire Bishop's Twenty and Ten (Peter Smith, 1984). It will also be a good choice for less proficient older readers wanting World War II novels.-Louise L. Sherman, Anna C. Scott School, Leonia, NJ (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Set in Austria in 1938, Ackerman's ( Song and Dance Man ) tale of a Jewish family's escape to Switzerland is long on drama but somewhat short on facts. When Clara's father decides the family must leave their home in Innsbruck, he begins by selling their valuables--except for an heirloom pair of silver Sabbath candlesticks. He uses the money to arrange for the family to travel to Switzerland, on foot; they will tell the border guards that they are Swiss citizens returning from an Austrian holiday. They hide the candlesticks in Clara's sister's petticoats--but the silver clinks. Clara saves the day by suggesting that they hide the candlesticks inside her two straw-filled dolls, and then she cleverly and courageously evades the Nazi guard who asks her a trick question about her toys. The plot has plenty of heartstopping moments, and the story line about the dolls is sure to engage many. Given the neatly established premise, it is a pity that the historical details are treated lightly. For example, Ackerman throws in casual references to ``the Resistance,'' and much is made of the yellow stars sewn to the characters' coats (the stars were not introduced until 1941). Illustrations not seen by PW. Ages 7-10. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
The simple tale of how one Jewish family escaped from Austria in 1938 to safe haven in Switzerland is touchingly told. Although characterization is minimal, the plot has enough tension and drama to hold even reluctant readers. A good choice for introducing young readers to the Holocaust. From HORN BOOK 1994, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
With the air of family history reshaped as fiction, a Jewish family's escape on foot from Innsbruck to Switzerland just after Hitler's 1938 annexation of Austria. Ackerman's unadorned narrative begins with midnight arrests and the betrayal of friends, but these are described so matter-of-factly that they lose most of their terror. Deciding to flee, Clara's parents sell their valuables, including Mama's wedding ring but not two heirloom Sabbath candlesticks. Stitched into older sister Marta's petticoat, these provide the chief drama: Since they tend to clank together, they are rehidden, at the border, inside another treasure--two dolls that Grandmother carried years ago on her ``night crossing'' from Russia to escape the pogroms, and which Clara has insisted on bringing. (This seems incredible: why wasn't the problem with the candlesticks resolved sooner, since silence has been vital throughout the long journey?) An epilogue follows the family to England and relative prosperity during the war, noting that many neighbors and relatives were less fortunate. Realistic if rather gentle, a simple dramatization that will be useful in introducing young children to the Holocaust. B&w illustrations not seen. (Fiction. 7-10)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 2-5. This simple docu-novel about a Jewish child escaping from the Nazis in 1938 introduces the Holocaust to young readers. On the first page, Clara overhears her parents whispering that they must leave their home in Innsbruck, Austria, "before it is too late." Then we see why: Clara and her older sister are chased home by a group of screaming anti-Semitic kids, including her former best friend. All around them, Jewish businesses are being vandalized, their owners sent to camps, their homes burglarized. Clara's parents sell their precious belongings and cut off their yellow stars, and the family steals away in the night. Of course, they are nearly caught, but they bribe and trick and make it past the border guards and walk over the mountains to Switzerland. There's little of the immediacy and depth here of the best personal accounts for middle readers, such as Ida Vos' Hide and Seek (1991) or Isabella Leitner's Big Lie (1992); and the massacre and brutality are only hinted at. Rather, Ackerman's brief chapter-book, in large, clear type and with illustrations (unseen in galley), gives younger kids a first look at the essentials of what it was like to be an ordinary child in danger at that terrible time. ~--Hazel Rochman