Seeking Refuge

In this follow-up to their successful graphic novel, Goodbye Marianne, award-winning author, Irene Watts, and celebrated illustrator, Kathryn Shoemaker, explore the reality of a young refugee girl who flees Nazi Germany on a kindertransporte, taking Jewish children to safety in Britain, never to see her family again. Though lucky to be alive, Marianne is terribly lonely in her new home. She has to learn to speak English and she longs for her real family. This story will resonate with young people aware of the dire situation of refugees migrating through Europe today.