Escape To Freedom
- Publisher
- Fitzhenry and Whiteside
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1991
- Category
- General, Emigration & Immigration
- Recommended Age
- 10 to 14
- Recommended Grade
- 5 to 9
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773754522
- Publish Date
- Oct 1991
- List Price
- $7.95
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Description
Two Austrian children face starvation, imprisonment, and even death during the desperate days following the Second World War.
About the author
Vancy Kasper is a Toronto poet, author and journalist. Her work includes her first poetry collection, Mother, I'm So Glad You Taught Me How to Dance; the best-selling Young Adult novel, Always Ask For a Transfer and Y.A. novels Escape To Freedom (First Honourable Mention, Canadian Library Association) and Street of Three Directions, also published in Italy. Her poems have been published in Fireweed, Canadian Women's Studies, Quarry, Waves, and Landscape and have been broadcast on Bravo TV, CKLN and the University of Toronto radio station. She has Poet in Residence in various Ontario schools. One of the first members of the Women's Writing Collective, she wrote for the Toronto Star for nine years. She is included in Greg Gatenby's Literary Toronto.