The Night Journey 1981 Kathryn Lasky SIGNED Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman ~ National Jewish Book Award Winner

Title: The Night Journey

Author: Kathryn Lasky / with drawings by
Illustrator: Trina Schart Hyman

Description: Signed by Lasky on half-title page. Second printing. Boards in blue cloth with lettering on spine and author's initials 'KL' on front cover stamped in silver. Tape stains on boards and free endpapers, else clean. Dust jacket has National Jewish Book Award sticker on front cover; not price clipped; in a new archival mylar sleeve. 149, [1] pages.

Rachel ignores her parents wishes and persuades her great-grandmother to relate the story of her escape from Russia, stories of a time when Jews were forced to serve in the czar's army or were murdered in pogroms. Because Rachel's parents think Nana Sashie should not be troubled with thoughts of the past, Rachel begins to go, secretly, to Nana Sashie's bedroom late at night. There she listens as the old woman's memories spring to life, creating characters that become as real to Rachel as members of her own family.

[Juvenile Fiction, Grades 5-8].

The Night Journey won the 1982 National Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature and was an ALA Notable Book for 1981.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good–
Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Publisher: Frederick Warne
Place: New York | London
Year: 1981

ISBN: 0723262012

Keywords: fiction, Russia, young adult, juvenile, Nicholas II, Jewish, Jews,