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LocationOakland
StatusChecked Out
Call NoF STU
TitleThe Children on the Train / Anna Stuart.
AuthorStuart, Anna.
Barcode47660111121501
CollectionFiction
SummaryGrete always longed to be a mother, but it never happened for her so, as the clouds of war gather over Europe, she’s devoting her time to helping Jewish children escape the Nazis. She remembers the face of every single child she’s taken on trains to freedom in the Netherlands. The danger increases with each trip, but, today, she has to get her best friend’s children to safety, because they are closest thing she has to family. But at the border, the train screeches to a halt and she hears the shout of a Nazi guard. Then the sound of boots coming towards their carriage. When the door bursts open, she draws herself up tall, and prepares to face the interrogation she knows will come. With shaking hands, she passes over Rosa and Adele’s tattered papers and hopes they aren’t scrutinised too closely. Grete is ready to do whatever it takes to keep her small charges safe…
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LocationStatusBarcodeCall NoCollectionShelf LocCirc Status
OaklandChecked Out47660111121501F STUFictionNew ShelfDue on 9/8/2026

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 978-1807223144 12.99
Personal Name Stuart, Anna.
Title Statement The Children on the Train / Anna Stuart.
Imprint N/A Booktouture 2026
Physical Description 400 p. softcover 21 cm.
Summary, Etc. Grete always longed to be a mother, but it never happened for her so, as the clouds of war gather over Europe, she’s devoting her time to helping Jewish children escape the Nazis. She remembers the face of every single child she’s taken on trains to freedom in the Netherlands. The danger increases with each trip, but, today, she has to get her best friend’s children to safety, because they are closest thing she has to family. But at the border, the train screeches to a halt and she hears the shout of a Nazi guard. Then the sound of boots coming towards their carriage. When the door bursts open, she draws herself up tall, and prepares to face the interrogation she knows will come. With shaking hands, she passes over Rosa and Adele’s tattered papers and hopes they aren’t scrutinised too closely. Grete is ready to do whatever it takes to keep her small charges safe…
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Mothers & children Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World War (1939-1945) History Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World War II, Historical Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World War (1939-1945), Holocaust Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Holocaust, Jewish, 1939-1945 Fiction