Author: annecvoorhoeve

Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder medal for most oustanding children’s book in translation.Escaping Nazi Germany on the kindertransport changes one girl’s life foreverAt the start of World War II, ten-year-old Franziska Mangold is torn from her family when she boards the kindertransport in Berlin, the train that secretly took nearly 10,000 children out of Nazi territory to safety in England. … territory to safety in England. Taken in by strangers who soon become more like family than her real parents, Frances (as she is now known) courageously pieces together a new life for herself because she doesn’t know when…