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Hana's Suitcase: A True Story (Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards))
Hana's Suitcase A True Story - Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award Awards Author:Karen Levine In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. On the outside, in white paint, were these words: Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, and Waisenkindthe German word for orphan. Children who saw the suitcase on display were full of questions. Who was Hana Brady? What happened to her? They wanted Fumiko Ish... more »ioka, the center's curator, to find the answers. In a suspenseful journey, Fumiko searches for clues across Europe and North America. The mystery of the suitcase takes her back through seventy years, to a young Hana and her family, whose happy life in a small Czech town was turned upside down by the invasion of the Nazis.« less