A Winter's Day In 1939

Author: Melinda Szymanik

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Price : $20.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781775430308
Publisher : Scholastic New Zealand Ltd
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Publication date : 01 January 2013
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Description

Adam is 13 years old and lives with his family on a small farm in rural Poland. It is 1939 and the war has just broken out. Russians invade Poland and confiscate Adam’s family’s house and farm. They are sent to live with another family nearby, but are then moved on and put on a train for a Russian labour camp as refugees, prisoners of Russia.

Awards

Finalist New Zealand Post Book Awards 2014 Storylines 2014 Notable Junior Fiction.

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Radio New Zealand review

Author description

Melinda Szymanik is the author of the picture books Clever Moo and The Were-Nana, which won the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards Children's Choice Award in 2009. A Winter's Day in 1939 is a novel close to Melinda's heart as it is based on her own father's journey across Europe during World War Two. Melinda has written two other novels, Jack the Viking (Scholastic, 2008) and The Half Life of Ryan Davis (Pear Jam, 2011).

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