Toward Morning: A Story of the Hungarian Freedom Fighters
Author:
Alta Halverson Seymour 
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Cover Artist:
David Stone
Publication:
1961 by Follett Publishing Company
Genre:
Fiction, Historical Fiction
Pages:
144
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Fourteen-year-old Teresa and her family live through the terror of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. This is a dramatic story of the young Freedom Fighters and of the dangers and excitement of one family's flight to the safety of the Austrian border.
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Toward Morning
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Toward Morning: A Story of the Hungarian Freedom Fighters 
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Toward Morning: A Story of the Hungarian Freedom Fighters
Reviewed by Diane Pendergraft
Alta Halverson Seymour’s book, Toward Morning: A Story of the Hungarian Freedom Fighters, is a fast-paced, small-slice story of a group of family and friends escaping Hungary in the midst of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
As a read-aloud, you may want to get started early in the day. The book is only 122 pages long, but there is no good place to pause. Our heroes are in constant danger, and must stay on the move to avoid capture, and to keep from endangering anyone who might help them. And many people do help.
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