The Night Journey

Modern Age
The Night Journey Author: Lasky, Katheryn Buy at Amazon | BookShop.org Time Period: Modern Age Time Frame: 1900 Geographic Area: Russia Country: Russia Topics: Russian Pogroms Genre: Fiction Reading Age: Upper Middle Grade Format: Chapter Book Published: 1981

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Thirteen-year-old Rachel dreads the afternoons she has to spend with her great-grandmother, Nana Sashie-until Sashie begins to reminisce about her childhood in Russia and Rachel finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of memories. As the events and characters of Sashie's past come to life, Rachel discovers a distant country and time, a time when Jews were forced to serve in the Czar's armies or were murdered in pogroms, a time when nine-year-old Sashie devised a wonderful plan to save her family from danger...

See also: Broken Song

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