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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon Pulse
ISBN-100689807228
ISBN-139780689807220
eBay Product ID (ePID)714394
Product Key Features
Book TitleAfter the War
Number of Pages128 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
TopicHistorical / Holocaust, Action & Adventure / Survival Stories, General, Religious / Jewish, Social Themes / Emigration & Immigration
IllustratorYes
GenreJuvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction
AuthorCarol Matas
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight2.6 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceYoung Adult Audience
Grade FromSeventh Grade
Grade ToEleventh Grade
SynopsisDidn't the gas ovens finish you all off? is the response that meets Ruth Mendenberg when she returns to her village in Poland after the liberation of Buchenwald at the end of World War II. Her entire family wiped out in the Holocaust, the fifteen-year-old girl has nowhere to go. Members of the underground organization Brichah find her, and she joins them in their dangerous quest to smuggle illegal immigrants to Palestine. Ruth risks her life to help lead a group of children on a daring journey over half a continent and across the sea to Eretz Israel, using secret routes and forged documents -- and sheer force of will. This adventure will touch readers, who will marvel at the resources and inner strength of mere children helping other children to find a place in this world in which they can belong. Carol Matas, one of the foremost authors of historical fiction, brings the desperation and passion of this remarkable journey to life., "Didn't the gas ovens finish you all off?" is the response that meets Ruth Mendenberg when she returns to her village in Poland after the liberation of Buchenwald at the end of World War II. Her entire family wiped out in the Holocaust, the fifteen-year-old girl has nowhere to go. Members of the underground organization Brichah find her, and she joins them in their dangerous quest to smuggle illegal immigrants to Palestine. Ruth risks her life to help lead a group of children on a daring journey over half a continent and across the sea to Eretz Israel, using secret routes and forged documents -- and sheer force of will. This adventure will touch readers, who will marvel at the resources and inner strength of mere children helping other children to find a place in this world in which they can belong. Carol Matas, one of the foremost authors of historical fiction, brings the desperation and passion of this remarkable journey to life.