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Children's Fiction General

Escape To Freedom

by (author) Vancy Kasper

Publisher
Fitzhenry and Whiteside
Initial publish date
Oct 1991
Category
General, Emigration & Immigration
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773754522
    Publish Date
    Oct 1991
    List Price
    $7.95

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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels

  • Age: 10 to 14
  • Grade: 5 to 9

Description

Two Austrian children face starvation, imprisonment, and even death during the desperate days following the Second World War.

About the author

Vancy Kasper is a Toronto poet, author and journalist. Her work includes her first poetry collection, Mother, I'm So Glad You Taught Me How to Dance; the best-selling Young Adult novel, Always Ask For a Transfer and Y.A. novels Escape To Freedom (First Honourable Mention, Canadian Library Association) and Street of Three Directions, also published in Italy. Her poems have been published in Fireweed, Canadian Women's Studies, Quarry, Waves, and Landscape and have been broadcast on Bravo TV, CKLN and the University of Toronto radio station. She has Poet in Residence in various Ontario schools. One of the first members of the Women's Writing Collective, she wrote for the Toronto Star for nine years. She is included in Greg Gatenby's Literary Toronto.

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