Faraway Home

Author : Marilyn Taylor
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781847174048

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Faraway Home by Marilyn Taylor Pdf

Karl and Rosa's family watch in horror as Hitler's troops parade down the streets of their home city -- Vienna. It has become very dangerous to be a Jew in Austria, and after their uncle is sent to Dachau, Karl and Rosa's parents decide to send the children out of the country on a Kindertransport, one of the many ships carrying refugee children away from Nazi danger. Isolated and homesick, Karl ends up in Millisle, a run-down farm in Ards in Northern Ireland, which has become a Jewish refugee centre, while Rosa is fostered by a local family. Hard work on the farm keeps Karl occupied, although he still waits desperately for any news from home. Then he makes friends with locals Peewee and Wee Billy, and also with the girls from neutral Dublin who come to help on the farm, especially Judy. But Northern Ireland is in the war too, with rationing and air-raid warnings, and, in April 1941 the bombs of the Belfast Blitz bring the reality of war right to their doorstep. And for Karl and Rosa and the other refugees there is the constant fear that they may never see their parents again. Based on a true story -- there was a refugee farm at Millisle and among its occupants was a young boy called Karl.

Author : Jane Kurtz
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547351353

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Faraway Home by Jane Kurtz Pdf

As her father prepares for a trip back to his childhood home in Ethiopia, Desta begins to worry. Where does her father truly belong--in the village of his youth or here in America with her? What was growing up in Ethiopia like? And will her father's love for his family be enough to bridge these two worlds and bring him back to her? •A powerful portrait of a contemporary American immigrant family •From a Coretta Scott King Honor-winning artist •Portrays a heartwarming father-daughter relationship •Junior Library Guild Selection

Author : Dawn Powell
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781581952452

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My Home is Far Away by Dawn Powell Pdf

My Home is Far Away is the most precisely autobiographical of Powell’s fifteen novels. In this family chronicle set in early twentieth century Ohio, young Marcia Willard’s family struggles to keep up with the rapidly changing times, and Marcia endures disillusionment, cruelty, and betrayal to forge a survivor’s sense of independence. John Updike has compared Powell with Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, “and those other Midwestern writers who felt something epic in the national shift from rural to urban, from provincial sequestration to metropolitan liberation.” By 1941, when Powell set to work on My Home Is Far Away, she was better known for the smart, boozy, bawdy, hilarious send-ups of Manhattan high and low life. She had begun to attain a reputation for high sophistication and nothing could be less “sophisticated” – in the glittering, all-knowing, furiously present-tense, big-city manner Powell had perfected – than My Home Is Far Away. This was the month of cherries and peaches, of green apples beyond the grape arbor, of little dandelion ghosts in the grass, of sour grass and four-leaf clovers, of still dry heat holding the smell of nasturtiums and dying lilacs. This was the best month of all and the best day. It was not birthday, Easter, Christmas, or picnic, but all these things and something else, something wonderful, something utterly unknown. The two little girls in embroidered white Sunday dresses knew no way to express their secret joy but by whirling each other dizzily over the lawn crying, “We’re moving, we’re moving! We’re moving to London Junction!” My Home Is Far Away is one of the very few examples of a book written for adults, with an adult command of the language, that maintains the vantage point of a hungry, serious child throughout. It might be likened to a memoir that has been penned not with the usual tranquility of distance but rather with the sense that everything happening to the characters is happening right now, without any promise of eventual escape, without any assurance that childhood, too, shall pass away. My Home is Far Away had been out of print for sixty years when Steerforth reissued it in 1995. It received immediate widespread acclaim, and was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where Terry Teachout called it “one of the permanent masterpieces of childhood, comparable with David Copperfield, What Maisie Knew and the early reminiscences of Colette,” and where he proclaimed Powell to be “one of this country’s least recognized great novelists.”

Author : Mary McKay Maynard
Publisher : Globe Pequot
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : Philippines
ISBN : 1585747238

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My Faraway Home by Mary McKay Maynard Pdf

A beautifully written, courageous memoir of a wartime childhood behind enemy lines. (SEE QUOTES. Use #2 if not too long.)

Author : Janie Lynn Panagopoulos
Publisher : Edco Pub Incorporated
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0974941263

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A Faraway Home by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos Pdf

Jack, Sarah, and little George are part of the Orphan Train traveling from New York City to the Midwest to find homes and better lives.

Author : Judith Berlowitz
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647423766

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Home So Far Away by Judith Berlowitz Pdf

A fictional diary set in interwar Germany and Spain allows us to peek into the life of Klara Philipsborn, the only Communist in her merchant-class, German-Jewish family. Klara’s first visit to Seville in 1925 opens her eyes and her spirit to an era in which Spain’s major religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, shared deep cultural connections. At the same time, she is made aware of the harsh injustices that persist in Spanish society. By 1930, she has landed a position with the medical school in Madrid. Though she feels compelled to hide her Jewish identity in her predominantly Christian new home, she finds that she feels less “different” in Spain than she did in Germany, especially as she learns new ways of expressing her opinions and desires. And when the Spanish Civil War erupts in 1936, Klara (now “Clara”) enlists in the Fifth Regiment, a step that transports her across the geography of the embattled peninsula and ultimately endangers a promising relationship and even Clara’s life itself. A blending of thoroughly researched history and engrossing fiction, Home So Far Away is an epic tale that will sweep readers away.

Author : Genevieve Graham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501142925

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Come from Away by Genevieve Graham Pdf

From the bestselling author of Tides of Honour and Promises to Keep comes a poignant novel about a young couple caught on opposite sides of the Second World War. In the fall of 1939, Grace Baker’s three brothers, sharp and proud in their uniforms, board Canadian ships headed for a faraway war. Grace stays behind, tending to the homefront and the general store that helps keep her small Nova Scotian community running. The war, everyone says, will be over before it starts. But three years later, the fighting rages on and rumours swirl about “wolf packs” of German U-Boats lurking in the deep waters along the shores of East Jeddore, a stone’s throw from Grace’s window. As the harsh realities of war come closer to home, Grace buries herself in her work at the store. Then, one day, a handsome stranger ventures into the store. He claims to be a trapper come from away, and as Grace gets to know him, she becomes enamoured by his gentle smile and thoughtful ways. But after several weeks, she discovers that Rudi, her mysterious visitor, is not the lonely outsider he appears to be. He is someone else entirely—someone not to be trusted. When a shocking truth about her family forces Grace to question everything she has so strongly believed, she realizes that she and Rudi have more in common than she had thought. And if Grace is to have a chance at love, she must not only choose a side, but take a stand. Come from Away is a mesmerizing story of love, shifting allegiances, and second chances, set against the tumultuous years of the Second World War.

Author : Lauren Markham
Publisher : Crown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101906200

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The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham Pdf

The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California—fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong. Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, the United States was a distant fantasy to identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores—until, at age seventeen, a deadly threat from the region’s brutal gangs forces them to flee the only home they’ve ever known. In this urgent chronicle of contemporary immigration, journalist Lauren Markham follows the Flores twins as they make their way across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, into the hands of immigration authorities, and from there to their estranged older brother in Oakland, CA. Soon these unaccompanied minors are navigating school in a new language, working to pay down their mounting coyote debt, and facing their day in immigration court, while also encountering the triumphs and pitfalls of teenage life with only each other for support. With intimate access and breathtaking range, Markham offers an unforgettable testament to the migrant experience. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW | WINNER OF THE RIDENHOUR BOOK PRIZE | SILVER WINNER OF THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD | FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE | SHORTLISTED FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK PRIZE | LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/BOGRAD WELD PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY

Author : J.T. Conners
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781662473630

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Far Away Home by J.T. Conners Pdf

Their planet had been ravaged by years of warfare. All life, apart from the many male species on their planet, have been eradicated. It has become vital to journey throughout many galaxies to gather much needed wildlife, plant life, and compatible females to replenish their world. In their travels, they discover Earth and its massive abundance of life. They decide to visit Earth to add to their collections. The supreme commander’s personal bodyguard, Jodar, decides to help his friends with the gathering on Earth. During this visit, they happen to come across an earthling female. This earthling beauty awakens unexpected desires he never expected to experience for himself. Jodar decides that he can’t leave this particular female behind, and he arranges for her capture. He must take her back with him to his home planet to discover if she is indeed what he has envisioned. During their collections to amass desperately needed life, they also uncover one of their own instigating an intricate conspiracy that could tip the scale for their enemy to triumph. Will this earthling female be what Jodar desires? Will the uncovered betrayal from one of their own, irrevocably provide their adversary the ultimate conquest after decades of battle? Can Jodar find true love and prevent the complete demise of his planet in time?

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101622773

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The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell's Roses Apricots. Her mother's disintegrating memory. An invitation to Iceland. Illness. These are Rebecca Solnit's raw materials, but The Faraway Nearby goes beyond her own life, as she spirals out into the stories she heard and read—from fairy tales to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein—that helped her navigate her difficult passge. Solnit takes us into the lives of others—an arctic cannibal, the young Che Guevara among the leprosy afflicted, a blues musician, an Icelandic artist and her labyrinth—to understand warmth and coldness, kindness and imagination, decay and transformation, making art and making self. This captivating, exquisitely written exploration of the forces that connect us and the way we tell our stories is a tour de force of association, a marvelous Russian doll of a book that is a fitting companion to Solnit's much-loved A Field Guide to Getting Lost.

Author : Josip Kavur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1922373087

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Far Away from Home by Josip Kavur Pdf

Author : Susan Denning
Publisher : Tstd, LLC/ DBA No Limit Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03
Category : Fronter and pioneer life
ISBN : 0692823522

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Embrace the Wind by Susan Denning Pdf

Aislynn Maher trusted the wrong man. To conceal her disgrace, she leaves her home and turns to the contentious US marshal of the Wyoming Territory, Orrin Sage, who is hiding a secret of his own. In Cheyenne, with its prejudice and lawlessness, it's not just difficult to do what you believe is right ─ it's potentially deadly.

Author : Howard Faber
Publisher : Boutique of Quality Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : 160808051X

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A Far Away Home by Howard Faber Pdf

This is the story of Ali, growing up in a peaceful Afghanistan, but later having to resist the control of first the Russians and later the Taliban, so he and his family could live at peace in their home. It's the story of many young Afghans, a story of the Afghanistan that was, and a story with hope for a brighter future.

Author : John Jackson Miller
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345546838

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Kenobi by John Jackson Miller Pdf

Exiled to Tatooine, Obi-Wan Kenobi works to hide his Jedi powers and establish an alternate identity for himself as an eccentric hermit while protecting an infant Luke Skywalker and aiding the residents of Tatooine.

Author : Neil Griffiths,Sylvia Wright,Anne Pratt
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : City and town life
ISBN : 9780748742950

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Foundations for Learning at Home and Far Away by Neil Griffiths,Sylvia Wright,Anne Pratt Pdf

Specifically designed to address the Foundation Curriculum Goals from the QCA.