The Chestry Oak

by Kate Seredy

Other authorsKate Seredy (Illustrator)
Paperback, 2015

Status

Available

Call number

HF1940

Publication

Purple House Press (2015), Paperback, 254 pages

Description

"As he watches his homeland of Hungary being taken over by Nazi Germany, young Prince Michael of Chestry strives to retain his identity and integrity during WWII"--

User reviews

LibraryThing member nancyo
This is my all time, number one, favorite story. It is about a boy in Hungary during WWII, who loves and loses a horse. The boy ends up on a farm in the US, and makes a new life there. And then..
LibraryThing member elliemaejune
One of my favorite books.

I first read it because it had a horse on the cover; and indeed, although the horse does have a part, the Chestry Oak is not about the horse.

The Chestry Oak is a model of honesty, intregity, honor, unselfish love, self sacrifice.

I cry from start to finish, in every chapter,
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when I read it. I read it aloud once to each of my daughters, and I cried all the way through it. (They didn't cry until the end, however!).

I have read other Kate Seredy books, but none compare to the Chestry Oak.
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Physical description

254 p.

ISBN

1930900813 / 9781930900813

Barcode

9057

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