THE END OF THE LINE - Sharon E. McKay

~ Trade Paperback

~ Winner of the Hackmatack Children's Choice Award for English Fiction - 2016, and the OLA Silver Birch Express Award - 2016

Ordinary citizens risk everything to save Beatrix, a young Jewish girl in wartime Holland, after a soldier forces her mother off a tram.  Its 1942 and everyone knows what happens to Jews who are taken away by the Nazis . . . 

A tribute to ordinary citizens who perform heroic acts under the most difficult conditions, The End of the Line is a suspenseful novel that vividly portrays the fear, uncertainty, and terror of the Nazi occupation in Holland, reflecting both the worst and best of humankind.

"A good introduction into the deprivations suffered during war, The End of the Line allows children to learn some grim realities without annihilating their sense of hope.' -- Kirkus