TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ardone,Viola
AU  - Botsford,Clarissa
TI  - The children's train: a novel 
SN  - 9780062940506
AV  - PQ4901.R43 T7413 2021
U1  - 853/.92 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - HarperVia
KW  - Children
KW  - Italy
KW  - Fiction.
KW  - Families
KW  - History
KW  - 1945-1976
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Originally published as Il treno dei bambini in Italy in 2019 by Einaudi
N2  - Though Mussolini and the fascists have been defeated, the second world war has devastated Italy, especially the south. Seven-year-old Amerigo lives with his mother Antonietta in Naples, surviving on odd jobs and his wits like the rest of the poor in his neighborhood. Then Amerigo learns that a train will take him away from the rubble-strewn streets of the city to spend the winter with a family in the north, where he will be safe and have warm clothes and food to eat. Together with thousands of other southern children, Amerigo will cross the entire peninsula to a new life--
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