To Nuremberg and Back: A Girl's Holiday

What if the greatest adventure of your life began with a single question: "Why can't I come too?" In 1890s America, twelve-year-old Alice Winter hears her father mention Nuremberg on business, and in that moment, her childhood transforms from schoolroom routine to continental discovery. This is no ordinary family vacation. It is a young girl's passionate campaign to prove she is old enough for the journey of a lifetime. From the docks of New York to the cobblestones of England and beyond, Alice and her companion Nellie race through history: Westminster Abbey's hallowed halls, the Tower of London's shadowed past, Strasbourg's soaring cathedral. Each chapter pulses with the electricity of first encounters, the smell of foreign streets, the weight of centuries in ancient stone, the intoxicating freedom of being somewhere utterly new. For anyone who has ever been a child longing to see the world, this book remembers that feeling perfectly.