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Overview
Thirteen-year-old Rachel imagines that her daily visits with her great-grandmother, Nana Sashie, will be just another boring duty - till Sashie starts to tell the story of her life in old Russia. Soon Rachel finds herself caught up in Sashie's tale of a distant country and time, a time when Jews were forced to serve in the Czar's armies or were brutally murdered in pogroms, a time when nine-year-old Sashie devised a wonderful plan for her family's escape...A young girl ignores her parents' wishes and persuades her great-grandmother to relate the story of her escape from czarist Russia.
Synopsis
"I sit here all day long, year after year. I remember. I remember all sorts of things."
Rachel has been warned by her parents not to discuss the past with her great-grandmother. But Nana Sashie has other plans. She begins telling Rachel about her family's flight from the pogroms and other dangers of Tsarist Russia. The daring escape plan was Sashie's own idea-and she was only nine years old.
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award An ALA Notable Book Winner of the Association of Jewish Libraries Children's Book Award