The Girl with the Suitcase

The Girl with the Suitcase
Author: Angela Hart
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1529024439

Why will nobody give little Grace a home? Foster carer Angela is determined to find the answer. Shunned by her mother, ten-year-old Grace has spent most of her childhood in care, moving from one foster home to the next. Each placement breaks down due to her ‘disruptive' behaviour, yet Grace seems such a friendly and well-meaning little girl. Specialist foster carer Angela is determined to help end her heartbreak, but what is the key to saving Grace? The Girl with the Suitcase is the seventh book from well-loved foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Angela Hart. This is a true story that shares the tale of one of the many children she has fostered over the years. Angela's stories show the difference that quiet care, a watchful eye and sympathetic ear can make to children who have had more difficult upbringings than most.

Suitcase Girl

Suitcase Girl
Author: Ty Hutchinson
Publisher: Ty Hutchinson
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2017-04-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Hana's Suitcase

Hana's Suitcase
Author: Karen Levine
Publisher: Second Story Press
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2002-08-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1926739280

New edition with foreword by Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu: “How extraordinary that this humble suitcase has enabled children all over the world to learn through Hana’s story the terrible history of what happened and that it continues to urge them to heed the warnings of history.” In the spring of 2000, Fumiko Ishioka, the curator of a small Holocaust education centre for children in Tokyo, received a very special shipment for an exhibit she was planning. She had asked the curators at the Auschwitz museum if she could borrow some artifacts connected to the experience of children at the camp. Among the items she received was an empty suitcase. From the moment she saw it, Fumiko was captivated by the writing on the outside that identified its owner – Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, Waisenkind (the German word for orphan). Children visiting the centre were full of questions. Who was Hana Brady? Where did she come from? What was she like? How did Hana become an orphan? What happened to her? Fueled by the children’s curiosity and her own need to know, Fumiko began a year of detective work, scouring the world for clues to the story of Hana Brady. Writer Karen Levine follows Fumiko in her search through history, from present-day Japan, Europe and North America back to 1938 Czechoslovakia and the young Hana Brady, a fun-loving child with a passion for ice skating. Together with Fumiko, we learn of Hana’s loving parents and older brother, George, and discover how the family’s happy life in a small town was turned upside down by the invasion of the Nazis. Based on an award-winning CBC documentary, Hana’s Suitcase takes the reader on an incredible journey full of mystery and memories, which come to life through the perspectives of Fumiko, Hana and later Hana’s brother, who now lives in Canada. Photographs and original wartime documents enhance this extraordinary story that bridges cultures, generations and time. Ideal for young readers aged 9 and up. Hana’s Suitcase is part of the award-winning Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers.

Suitcase of Dreams

Suitcase of Dreams
Author: Tania Blanchard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2018-10-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1925596176

From the bestselling author of The Girl from Munich, a sweeping, dramatic tale of love and identity, inspired by a true story. After enduring the horror of Nazi Germany and the chaos of postwar occupation, Lotte Drescher and her family arrive in Australia in 1956 full of hope for a new life. It’s a land of opportunity, where Lotte and her husband Erich dream of giving their children the future they have always wanted. After years of struggling to find their feet as New Australians, Erich turns his skill as a wood carver into a successful business and Lotte makes a career out of her lifelong passion, photography. The sacrifices they have made finally seem worth it until Erich’s role in the trade union movement threatens to have him branded a communist and endanger their family. Then darker shadows of the past reach out to them from Germany, a world and a lifetime away. As the Vietnam War looms, an unexpected visitor forces Lotte to a turning point. Her decision will change her life forever . . . and will finally show her the true meaning of home. PRAISE FOR TANIA BLANCHARD ‘Captures the intensity of a brutal and unforgiving war, successfully weaving love, loss, desperation and, finally, hope into a gripping journey of self-discovery.’ Courier Mail ‘An epic tale, grand in scope … Packs an emotional punch that will reverberate far and wide.’ Weekly Times ‘A tumultuous journey from order to bedlam, and from naive acceptance of the status quo to the gradual getting of political wisdom.’ Sunday Age ‘An original and innovative take on the World War II genre that captures the hauntingly desperate essence of the war. Tania Blanchard has written yet another spectacular novel. Don’t miss this.’ Better Reading ‘A sweeping, dramatic tale of love and identity.’ Fraser Coast Chronicle

The Yellow Suitcase

The Yellow Suitcase
Author: Meera Sriram
Publisher: Penny Candy Books
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2019-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780999658413

What memories will Asha's yellow suitcase hold now that grandmother is gone?

Stories from Quarantine

Stories from Quarantine
Author: The New York Times
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2022-03-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982170816

"Previously published as The decameron project."

The Suitcase

The Suitcase
Author: Julie Mertus
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1997-01-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520206342

The stories of the refugees from the war in Bosnia.

The Enormous Suitcase

The Enormous Suitcase
Author: Robert Munsch
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2019-03-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 144316318X

Kelsey travels back and forth between her mom's house and her dad's, and each time her suitcase gets bigger, and BIGGER, and BIGGER . . .

Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase

Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase
Author: Louise Walters
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2015-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0698155971

A heartbreaking and deeply compelling debut, Mrs. Sinclair’s Suitcase is a compulsive page-turner about thwarted love, dashed hopes, and family secrets—book-club fiction at its best. Roberta, a lonely thirty-four-year-old bibliophile, works at The Old and New Bookshop in England. When she finds a letter inside her centenarian grandmother’s battered old suitcase that hints at a dark secret, her understanding of her family’s history is completely upturned. Running alongside Roberta’s narrative is that of her grandmother, Dorothy, as a forty-year-old childless woman desperate for motherhood during the early years of World War II. After a chance encounter with a Polish war pilot, Dorothy believes she’s finally found happiness, but must instead make an unthinkable decision whose consequences forever change the framework of her family. The parallel stories of Roberta and Dorothy unravel over the course of eighty years as they both make their own ways through secrets, lies, sacrifices, and love. Utterly absorbing, Mrs. Sinclair’s Suitcase is a spellbinding tale of two worlds, one shattered by secrets and the other by the truth.

The Boy in the Suitcase

The Boy in the Suitcase
Author: Lene Kaaberbol
Publisher: Soho Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2011-11-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1569479828

Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive. Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy's are in jeopardy, too. In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is trying to hunt him down.