1,001 Novels: A Library of America
Lily's Crossing (1997)
by Patricia Reilly Giff
Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York
Brooklyn/Queens/Long Island/Staten Island: 13/28
New York: 89/105
Lily's Crossing is a Newberry Medal Winner from 1998, about a young girl who befriends a Hungarian boy who was smuggled out from Nazi held Hungary and France to wait out the war in Rockaway Beach, Queens. It's not the first book in the 1,001 Novels: A Library of America with that plot. Beyond that, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash covers similar territory and goes on to do much more, since it is not a book for children. But Children's Lit is what they hand out the Newberry Medal for being. Who am I to take issue with their judgment. Seems like Rockaway Beach deserves more than a kids book about World War II.
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