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The Lily Pond ReviewStephie Steiner, a 13-year-old Austrian Jew, moves to Goteborg on the Swedish mainland in Annika Thor's amazing sequel to the Faraway Island. Stephie came to Sweden with a group of child refugees from Vienna and was sent to foster parents on the tip of a remote island. The first book describes Stephie's challenges on the island. In The Lily Pond, Stephie boards with a family in Goteborg and attends grammar school (high school) on a scholarship. Her parents are hundreds of miles away, working long hours in a factory and the Jewish hospital, moving from a room in their grand old apartment to a small room in the Jewish ghetto, trying to get entrance visas to America, but The Lily Pond spends more time on Stephie, her friends, her unrequited love for Sven, and her schoolwork. Stephie's foster family on the island has become her new home, and her several weekends there are too short, but the freedom of the city puts her in a pickle when she attends the cinema and runs into her strict Pentecostal foster mother's gossipy neighbor on the way out. Stephie continues her schooling and finds a friend who also doesn't quite fit in, but, at the end of The Lily Pond, the war has barely started for the Swedes. Much more will come in the next two books of this spectacular, well-written, and truthful quartet.The Lily Pond OverviewA year after Stephie Steiner and her younger sister, Nellie, left Nazi-occupied Vienna, Stephie has finally adapted to life on the rugged Swedish island where she now lives. But more change awaits Stephie: her foster parents have allowed her to enroll in school on the mainland, in Goteberg. Stephie is eager to go. Not only will she be pursuing her studies, she'll be living in a cultured city again—under the same roof as Sven, the son of the lodgers who rented her foster parents' cottage for the summer.Five years her senior, Sven dazzles Stephie with his charm, his talk of equality, and his anti-Hitler sentiments. Stephie can't help herself—she's falling in love. As she navigates a sea of new emotions, she also grapples with what it means to be beholden to others, with her constant worry about what her parents are enduring back in Vienna, and with the menacing spread of Nazi ideology, even in Sweden. In these troubled times, her true friends, Stephie discovers, are the ones she least expected.

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