What an inspiring and affecting story of a Polish Jewish family's exile to Siberia during WWII! I read this aloud to my 13 year old daughter and we were both moved by the optimism and perseverance shown by the main character, a young girl of 11 when first exiled, and her family. The ending was a bit rushed, but otherwise this is a well written memoir that provides fascinating and heartbreaking insight into the less known experience of the hundreds of thousands of Poles, many of them Jewish, deported as prisoners to Siberia.