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I am trying to encourage my son to read more, and I suddenly remembered this wonderful book, recommended by my very literary grandmother at the time, which I read at about the age of 9 or 10. I ordered it for my son, but I’m rereading it first! Our son is studying about the holocaust at his school and I felt that this book is a necessary complement to the overwhelmingly depressing details of the Holocaust. This is a fantastic story of a Jewish family’s struggles with deportation to Siberia and ultimate triumph. Virtually all of them survive and the family remains together the entire time. Their exile to Siberia turned out to be an incredible stroke of good luck in the long run, though they suffered greatly. It’s such an inspirational story told with a wonderful author’s voice. I can’t recommend this book highly enough. A must read for all children and adults alike.


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The Endless Steppe Growing Up in Siberia HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT Books Reviews

This book was recommended to me via another book about knitting. It was somewhat difficult to get hold of and there was very little about knitting BUT what there was left me amazed. How a child could do what she did is amazing. Her graphic descriptions were heart breaking and no doubt true.
My granddaughter had this assigned for summer reading. I bought a copy to read along. It is a little rough in parts as this was a roundup of Polish citizens who were sent to Siberia for labor camps. The narrator is a young girl. Her voice is an excellent raconteur of a horrible dislocation and learning to live in deprivation.
Written from a child's view of things, it was refreshing. It presented a harsh Siberian experience with an innocent take. Her recounting of certain new things she experienced evoked a bit of a chuckle. Where an adult might describe such a life with miserable reality, here you have a young girl describing it almost like an adventure. Excellent young adult literature.
My daughter read this as a 10 year-old and was fascinated; I reread it in my 70s and was equally captivated. It is a vivid narrative of exile to Siberia from the point of view of the child the author was at the time, a kind of Russian Laura Ingalls Wilder. Anyone would be interested and amazed at how the narrator from a comfortable urban home adapted to a harsh Siberian life.
This is a good book for young people to read of Polish Jewish history during WWII in Poland, Europe.
The book is explained about how Hitler had a preconceived friendship with the Soviet Union, only to stab the Soviets in the back. It was then that the Soviets invaded Poland and took the Jewish people out of Europe as they fought the Germans in World War II. The Soviets sent hundreds of Polish Jewish people by way of railroad--traveling for months in cattle cars-- arriving at their final destination for however long that be--- in the barren land of Siberia.

This story is real and personal, as the author of the book wrote about her childhood experience prior to becoming a Polish Jewish prisoner of war-- taken away from all she knew, to how she survived her exsistance in Siberia along with everyone else. She includes their community's environment(s) as it was the essence of every one's survival.

I recommend this well written book for American children (especially), as we have never gone through an experience of this liking....such as the liking of those who were European Jews who did nothing wrong but to sustain sacrifice after sacrifice because of who they were, though they did nothing wrong to deserve such treatment and to be so unaware of what their futures held.
This is a very special book. I read it in middle school over 20 years ago and it always stayed with me. My teacher had some WWII veterans come visit us and speak with us after reading the book. Now that I have my own daughter who is 9 I bought this book and read it to her. It was just as moving, educational, and an amazing true story as I remembered.
I read this book as a child in the 7th grade while living in a third world country, and at the time I wasn't able to purchase it so I read it in the school's library. Now almost three decades later I was overjoyed to find this book on because I remembered how moved I was by this story. One event which stood out in my mind and had helped me to bond with this little girl was how badly she wanted a pair of shoes and clothes to wear to a school event. Her family could not afford it because they were so ravished by the war. In the midst of all that poverty and destruction this girl's family recognized her need to feel normal for one night and improvised to give her this desperate wish. Very compelling story about perspectives, the danger of prejudice, the human will to survive, and the beauty of finding simple joys in life in the face of adversity. This book remains on my bookshelf as a sentiment of how far I have come and how much I have persevered. It was even more special as a mother to now share it with my child. Thanks for carrying such classics!
I am trying to encourage my son to read more, and I suddenly remembered this wonderful book, recommended by my very literary grandmother at the time, which I read at about the age of 9 or 10. I ordered it for my son, but I’m rereading it first! Our son is studying about the holocaust at his school and I felt that this book is a necessary complement to the overwhelmingly depressing details of the Holocaust. This is a fantastic story of a Jewish family’s struggles with deportation to Siberia and ultimate triumph. Virtually all of them survive and the family remains together the entire time. Their exile to Siberia turned out to be an incredible stroke of good luck in the long run, though they suffered greatly. It’s such an inspirational story told with a wonderful author’s voice. I can’t recommend this book highly enough. A must read for all children and adults alike.