HUNGER JOURNEYS

Book ID/图书代码： 06002011B48624

English Summary/英文概要： It’s World War Two in Amsterdam. Teenaged Lena leaves her starving family to travel by train with her friend, Sofie, to Almelo, a town close to the German border. It’s a risky plan. They have false papers and are quickly pulled off the train by German soldiers. Only by fluke do they get back on again— with the help of Albert, one of the other soldiers. After Lena discovers that the train had also been used to transport Jews to concentration camps, she fears her new friendship with the helpful Albert may lead her into more danger. Sofie, too, befriends a soldier, a relationship that quickly turns serious and has unforeseen consequences for both girls.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一趟賭上性命，有勇無謀的旅行
讓天真少女的命運落入敵方手中
殘酷的現實擊碎她非黑即白的世界觀
在危機四伏的環境中，該如何才能生存下去？

改編自作者Maggie De Vries家人的真實經歷。
飢餓之旅(Hunger Journeys)發生在二戰期間的荷蘭，飢腸轆轆的阿姆斯特丹人冒著生命危險跑到鄉間尋找食物。年輕天真的Lena認識了充滿鬼點子的Sofie，兩人為了尋求溫飽，拋下飢餓的家人，偷偷搭火車到位於德國邊境邊緣的阿爾默洛(Almelo)。
這個決定非常冒險，果不其然，兩人被德國士兵抓個正著。但她們卻與俘虜自己的德國士兵成為朋友，他們真的是好人嗎？還是只是披著羊皮的狼？她們也發現這班火車是曾經用來運送猶太人到集中營的交通工具…！在旅途終點等待她們的，是家人朋友的溫暖懷抱，還是死神的召喚…？(Eva)

Awards/获奖情况：2011年Sheila A. Egoff兒童文學獎得主！

獲獎訊息: Shortlisted for the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize

Review
“De Vries has done a masterful job of creating a believable world peopled with characters whose loyalties are agonizingly divided between family, friends, and nation.”---Quill & Quire加拿大書評雜誌

"In wartime, young women do find themselves in compromising situations. And one of de Vries’s themes for the teen reader is that trying times bring out the best and the worst in people. Her protagonist is a dynamic model of courage during great difficulty. The strongest element of Hunger Journeys is the richness of the characters within a gripping plot. It’s impressive writing, but not unexpected from the woman who wrote children’s books such as Tale of a Great White Fish and the memoir Missing Sarah." --- Vancouver Sun《溫哥華太陽報》

“Historical fiction at its best. Readers are taken into the Netherlands of 1944 from the first page and are immediately immersed in the sights, sounds and sentiments of that terrible time. But beyond that, De Vries introduces us to characters with strength and determination, passion and humour which supersede any specific historical era.”--- CM Magazine

"Maggie de Vries has written a deeply involving story in a direct and accessible style. Her spare descriptions and the simplicity of language that makes the book approachable by its intended young adult audience should also serve to create, in a reader with a broader frame of reference, an inescapably sinister undercurrent: told from the perspective of an inexperienced teenager, the novel’s events and characters are presented without embellishment or analysis in the same way as are the occurrences and personalities one encounters in life."---The Rover

“...Hunger Journeys is a spectacular story of defeat and triumph, struggle and rest. . . .I would recommend this to any teenager who wants a challenging, thought-provoking story.”---What If? Magazine

“This book provides a vivid snapshot of life in the Netherlands just before the Liberation in 1945, and will appeal to that large readership that devours World War II fiction.”---Resource Links

About the Author/作者介绍： Maggie de vries is the author of five books for children, including Fraser Bear and Tale of a Great White Fish, as well as one book for adults, Missing Sarah, a memoir about her sister’s disappearance (shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award). Since the fall of 2007, de Vries has focused on writing and teaching creative writing at UBC. She lives in Vancouver.
Maggie De Vries是作家，童書著作包括《Fraser Bear》和《Tale of a Great White Fish》等，另外還有一本成人書《Missing Sarah》，是De Vries談論失蹤妹妹的回憶錄，此書曾入圍加拿大總督獎決選(Governor General’s Award)。自2007秋天開始，De Vries就在加拿大英屬哥倫比亞大學(UBC)教創意寫作課程，一邊專注於寫作工作。

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