A Faraway Island Author:Annika Thor It's the summer of 1939, Two Jewish sisters from Vienna - twelve year-old Stephie Steiner and seven year-old Nellie - are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will go to America. But as the world war intensifies, the girls remain, each with her own host... more » family, on a rugged island off the western coast of Sweden. Nellie quickly settles in to her new surroundings. Not so for Stephie, who finds it hard to adapt; she feels stranded at the end of the world. It's no wonder that she doesn't let on that the most popular girl at school has become her bitter enemy, or that she endures wounding slights from certain villagers. Her main worry, though, is her parents - and whether she will ever see them again.« less