The Endless Steppe

The Endless Steppe
Author: Esther Hautzig
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1995-05-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 006440577X

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Exiled to Siberia In June 1942, the Rudomin family is arrested by the Russians. They are "capitalists -- enemies of the people." Forced from their home and friends in Vilna, Poland, they are herded into crowded cattle cars. Their destination: the endless steppe of Siberia. For five years, Ester and her family live in exile, weeding potato fields and working in the mines, struggling for enough food and clothing to stay alive. Only the strength of family sustains them and gives them hope for the future.

The Endless Steppe

The Endless Steppe
Author: Esther Hautzig
Publisher: Scholastic
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1986
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

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A young Polish girl, her mother, and her grandmother, taken prisoners by the Russians during World War II and shipped to a forced-labor camp in a remote, impoverished Siberian village, somehow manage to stay together and alive through near starvation and harsh arctic winters.

A Parcel of Patterns

A Parcel of Patterns
Author: Jill Paton Walsh
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2022-03-03
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1473594723

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A PLAGUE - A VILLAGE - A LOCKDOWN 1665, Eyam, Derbyshire. 'Here I have set down all that I know of the Plague' It is 1665 and Mall Percival is a shepherd girl living in a Derbyshire village. She tends her flock, spends time with her best friend and teaches her young suitor to read. But one day a parcel of patterns, meant for a new dress for the pastor's wife, wings its way from London. The parcel carries an infection that spreads with horrifying speed. Herbal teas and open windows are the only defence against the sickness. Yet the villagers make a brave and selfless decision: to isolate themselves from the rest of the country. It is a lockdown that saves the neighbouring towns, but at heart-breaking cost to Mall's world. Based on the true events of the village of Eyam, this is the story of a courageous sacrifice that saved Derbyshire and beyond from a deadly virus. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WHITBREAD PRIZE* 'A pocket masterpiece' Guardian Readers love A Parcel of Patterns 'I couldn't put it down' 'Brought me to tears too many times to count' 'If you think social distancing is hard in the Coronavirus pandemic, read this wonderful novel based on the true story of the village of Eyam'

Remember who You are

Remember who You are
Author: Esther Rudomin Hautzig
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780827606944

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This is a collection of 20 haunting true stories, each revealing the struggle for Jewish identity and the solace gained through faith. As a child, Esther Hautzig and her family were exiled to Siberia for being capitalists, thus inadvertently escaping the Nazis. After World War II, Hautzig began collecting the true stories of those who lived and died during the horror of the Holocaust: of Jews in Vilna, in the United States, and in Israel.

Humbug Mountain

Humbug Mountain
Author: Sid Fleischman
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2012-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 162064388X

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Welcome to Humbug Mountain. Little did Wiley, the son of a traveling newspaperman, imagine that the search for his grandfather would lead him into the hands of those nasty villains of the West-Shagnasty John and the Fool Killer. Using their newspaper, The Humbug Mountain Hoorah, Wiley and his sister and mother go about outwitting the outlaws in their scheme to ambush Grandfather's new boat and its cargo of gold.

The Endless Steppe

The Endless Steppe
Author: Esther Hautzig
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780030675270

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During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.

Through the Burning Steppe

Through the Burning Steppe
Author: Elena Kozhina
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Children
ISBN: 9781573228558

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A wartime memoir through the eyes of a Russian child.

The Endless Steppe

The Endless Steppe
Author: Esther Hautzig
Publisher: Everbind
Total Pages:
Release: 2009-07-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780784822906

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Trade Sized Edition; Great elementary grades reading.

Rob Roy

Rob Roy
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 686
Release: 1872
Genre:
ISBN:

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The Endless Steppe

The Endless Steppe
Author: Esther Hautzig
Publisher:
Total Pages: 187
Release: 1968
Genre: Siberia (Russia)
ISBN: 9780140470703

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SUMMARY: The story of Esther Rudomin, a ten year old Polish girl, and her family who are sent into exile to Siberia by the Russians during the Second World War.