The long way home

The long way home

By Margot Benary-Isbert

Subjects: WW II, Germans, young adult, German Americans, Fiction, Orphans, Juvenile fiction, escape to America

Description: "You must go now, Chris. It will be only days before the Peoples' Police discover who you are!" When war orphan Chris narrowly escapes arrest by the Communists, his Aunt Sabine knows the time has come to send him from East Germany to America. Alone, he goes "under the wire" to find freedom--and to face a set of problems he doesn't expect. Larry, the ex-serviceman who befriended Chris as a baby, wants him for a son. But Denise, Larry's wife, isn't so sure...

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