During World War II, eleven-year-old Alice, whose life has been sheltered and comfortable, discovers some important things about herself and the people she meets when she and her grandfather board a train and begin an increasingly intolerable journey to an unknown destination.Routed from their safe haven and crowded into a train bound for an unknown destination, eleven-year-old Alice and her grandfather must confront the horrors of Hitler's Germany
Hiding in the basement of her former home after Hitler comes to power, Alice finds herself on the run with her grandfather after her grandmother is taken prisoner, and she begins to understand the horrors of Hitler's Germany.
