Illustrator: none
Genre: Historical Fiction
Subgenre:
Themes: The Holocaust, holding on to identity, trust and generosity, survival and self-reliance
Characters:
~Primary: Srulik Frydman (Jurek Staniak),
~Secondary: Duvid Frydman, Riva Frydman, Hersh Frydman, Yankel, Marisza, Azor, Marina, Grzegorz, Clara, Sasha, Christins, The Kowalski’s, Tadek, Pani Rappaport and Pani Staniak
Awards:
~Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book
Date of Publication: 2003
Publication Company: Houghton Mifflin Company
Summary: At eight years old, Srulik is separated from his family in the Warsaw ghetto. While people are being round up in the streets, he is able to escape with the help of a Polish farmer, who leaves him in the company of a group of boys roaming the countryside. These boys teach him how to survive in the wild, but he loses them as well to the cruelty of the war. Now, Srulik must pass himself off as a Christian boy in order to survive in Poland during the Nazi occupation.
Recommendation: This book was a very emotional read. I would recommend this book to be used for readers above the age of twelve. One of the best things about this book is that the topic and the writing is engaging, but the difficulty level of the text is not very high, making it a good book for older students who are reading at a lower level.
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