From Booklist
Gr. 3^-5. At the heart of this suspenseful time-slip fantasy set during Hanukkah is a young girl's growing awareness of her Jewish identity. When Susan is sent to England to spend the week with an elderly aunt, she feels as desolate as the gray moors surrounding the stone manor house. But as the Hanukkah candles flicker each night, she mysteriously meets the children who lived there during World War II. One is Hanni, a Jewish refugee; another is Alex, Aunt Elizabeth's prejudiced stepson. Penn strikes a good balance between the ordinary events of daylight and the extraordinary happenings at dusk. Although information about Hanukkah isn't always smoothly integrated into the narrative, it is a minor flaw. This has good style, a likable heroine, and an eerie atmosphere. When Susan is able to correct a terrible injustice that occurred 50 years earlier, she takes part in the miracle of the holiday season. Julie Corsaro
Review
Susan spends a week at a remote house in England and encounters a series of strange individuals and figures which lead her to believe ghosts of the past are connected to the Hanukkah candles she and her aunt have been lighting. Her efforts to uncover the reasons behind their appearance result in a deeper understanding of the Hanukkah spirit. -- Midwest Book Review
