Irene N. Watts

In a companion to Good-bye Marianne, young Marianne escapes Germany to the safety of Britain, but she does not speak English, she is not welcome in her sponsors' home, and she misses her mother terribly, which all adds up to a difficult struggle to survive. Original.

A Search for Refuge in Wartime Britain

Remember Me

Louisa Gardener, the fourteen-year-old nursemaid to the young daughters of a wealthy, titled family living in London, England, in 1912, overcomes her fear of the ocean and sails with her charges to New York aboard the Titanic.

No moon

Tells the story of Marianne Kohn, an eleven-year-old Jewish girl in Berlin in 1938 who experiences the division in her homeland due to the Nazi regime, and who eventually boards a boat to take her to safety in London

Good-bye Marianne

Fleeing the pograms in Russia and European anti-Semitism, teenaged Miriam arrives in America only to face anti-immigrant discrimination before landing a job in a clothing factory and witnessing the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

Touched by Fire

At the end of World War II in 1945, fourteen-year-old Sophie, a German Jew who has lived with a guardian in London for seven years, wonders what will happen when she is reunited with her parents and she tells them that she wants to stay in England.

Finding Sophie

Escape from Berlin

Discover intriguing ideas for using the story circle to help students create, build, and dramatize their own stories. Using common materials, children learn to collaborate as they discover stories in the news, use letters as stories, uncover stories through folktales, and much more.

Making Stories

Contains ten short plays based on folktales and legends from around the world and includes related language activities for each play for the elementary classroom.

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