The Night Journey (novel)
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The Night Journey is a 1981 novel by Kathryn Lasky
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during the Holocaust. Nana Sashie refuses to eat for a week with the intention of dying, and passes away. Before moving to Minnesota
, Nana Sashie was married to Reuven Bloom for 40 years.
Open Court Reading
took the book and shortened it, giving Rachel the name "Rache". The story starts with a background of the story and the story from Ed's gift - a samovar
- and Nana Sashie looking upset. When Rache sneaks into Nana Sashie's room to look at the samovar
, she ends up hearing Nana's tale.
Kathryn Lasky
Kathryn Lasky is an American author whose work includes several Dear America books, The Royal Diaries books, Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series.-Biography:...
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Plot Overview
Nana Sashie tells her great-grandchild, Rachel, of her escape from RussiaRussia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
during the Holocaust. Nana Sashie refuses to eat for a week with the intention of dying, and passes away. Before moving to Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
, Nana Sashie was married to Reuven Bloom for 40 years.
Open Court Reading
Open Court Reading
The Open Court Reading Program is a core Language arts/English series used in a large number of elementary schools classrooms. It was one of two reading programs adopted for use in California schools when textbooks were last chosen in 2002. The other was Houghton-Mifflin Reading...
took the book and shortened it, giving Rachel the name "Rache". The story starts with a background of the story and the story from Ed's gift - a samovar
Samovar
A samovar is a heated metal container traditionally used to heat and boil water in and around Russia, as well as in other Central, South-Eastern, Eastern European countries,Kashmir and in the Middle-East...
- and Nana Sashie looking upset. When Rache sneaks into Nana Sashie's room to look at the samovar
Samovar
A samovar is a heated metal container traditionally used to heat and boil water in and around Russia, as well as in other Central, South-Eastern, Eastern European countries,Kashmir and in the Middle-East...
, she ends up hearing Nana's tale.