From Anna – Scholastic Canadian Classic

Nine-year-old Anna has always been the clumsy one in the family. Somehow she can never do anything right. She bumps into tables, and she can’t read the blackboard at her school. Her perfect brothers and sisters call her “Awkward Anna.” When Papa announces that the family is moving from Germany to Canada — from the disappearances of some Jewish neighbours he can see what the Nazis’ rise to power will bring — Anna’s heart sinks. How can she learn English when she can’t even read German properly?