It’s hard to leave your home and friends, but the Nazis have invaded Clara’s native Austria, and her Jewish family is no longer safe. Clara and her family take only what they can carry and travel by night to the Swiss border, where they hope to escape to freedom. Soldiers are everywhere, and it is Clara’s heroism that carries the family across the border, their lives and few precious possessions intact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s hard to leave your home and friends, but the Nazis have invaded Clara’s native Austria, and her Jewish family is no longer safe. Clara and her family take only what they can carry and travel by night to the Swiss border, where they hope to escape to freedom. Soldiers are everywhere, and it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3480,"template":"","book_tag":[1049],"age_group":[24],"book_type":[1044],"book_author":[527],"class_list":["post-9280","our-books","type-our-books","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","book_tag-war-books","age_group-books-for-9-year-olds","book_type-paid","book_author-karen-ackerman"],"yoast_title":"The Night Crossing | Age 9+ | Little Reads","yoast_metadesc":"It\u2019s hard to leave your home and friends, but the Nazis have invaded Clara\u2019s native Austria, and her Jewish family is no longer safe. Age 9+. 3,000+ hand-picked books on Little Reads. 7-day free trial.","acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n