The Night Crossing

by Karen Ackerman

Book Overview

For fans of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas comes a heartstopping tale of resilience for one young girl during World War II. It's hard to leave your home and friends, but the Nazis have invaded Clara's native Austria, and her family is no longer safe. Clara and her family take only what they can carry and travel by night to the Swiss border, where they hope to escape to freedom, even while soldiers are everywhere. Can Clara's heroism carry her family...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679870407
• ISBN13: 9780679870401
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Yearling Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.2" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Great for Kids

I like this teaching book. Easy for children to read and also gives them an insight to other cultures and the hard life of others.

A story of the Holocaust

This brief story follows Clara, a young Jewish schoolgirl of Innsbruck, Austria as the German National Socialists begin their persecution of Jewish communities after the German National Socialist annexation of Austria. As Papa and Mama prepare the family's escape to the neutral country of Switzerland, the story focuses on the anxiety and fear as the family makes hard choices in order to survive. The epilogue eventually finds the family in England at the end of the war and alludes to the terrors of the Holocaust. However, it does not specifically name the atrociites, allowing parents to talk to their children about this historical reality. It especially struck me that the author's dedication is: "For Clara, with remembrance, for Mimi, with love, and for the one and a half million children who perished in the Holocaust." This is a difficult story that must be told to children of this generation and future generations.

The Night Crossing

The Crossing Night is a very sad book. What I mean by sad is that the poor family as to move because they are Jews. I choose this book because of the cover. I mean if you saw this cover you would like to read it it sound pretty good too. This book well is a worth to read if you ask me. Here is a reason you should read this book.The Croosing Night is about a Jewish family who can't live in Australia. Then they have to move, after what probaly 600 years. I mean if you ask me I find that kind rude. So they find the most valuble things in the house that they could sell, but they can't take everything with them. The wife takes her candles that had been passed down to her. Clary her older daughter took some books. The youngest daughter took her two dolls. Well, the husband took his wedding ring. So at night they head off to Germany. Will they get caught? or will they make it. Well, I gave you my reason so if you still want to read go to the libary. Go ahead nobody is stopping you so go. Find out get this book from the library and find out. I recamend this book to a friend. It is not that bad, but it is a worth to read. so go to the nearest libary and get this book. You won't regret it.

The Night Crossing

I like The Night Crossing by Karen Ackerman. It showed how hard it was to escape for freedom. It was a short book, but people probuly went through more then what happened to then in the story. Some families may not have had as many people and then they couldn't carry a lot of their things. Some people didn't have place to stop for safety. These people had their hard times and easy times that is what makes this book good. I hope you read and enjoy it because it is great!

The Night Crossing was a very good book.

THE NIGHT CROSSING Hi, I am a sixth grade student,and I read The Night Crossing ,and it was a very good book. I would recomend this book to a 6th or 7th grader, or 10-14 years of age. I'm not going to tell you about the book because what I would say might give it away,and you would find out what this book is about.