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Author: Jerry Spinelli
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Imprint: Random House Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 13.20cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.170kg
ISBN: 9780375861475
ISBN 10: 0375861475
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 23 March 2010
Recommended Age: From 12 years
Audience:
Young adult
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Teenage / Young adult
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
An extremely powerful book. Readers will be gripped by this story of a young orphan in Warsaw. -- Boston Herald Jerry Spinelli has fashioned a novel of beauty out of the ugliness of the Holocaust. It is a superb book, one of the best you will read. -- BookPage Stunning. -- Kirkus Reviews, Starred Spinelli creates a masterful achievement, a war story to be put alongside J. G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun and a literary accompaniement to Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful. -- VOYA An unforgettable novel. --Library Media Connection, Starred Part survival adventure, part Holocaust history, [this] novel tells the story through the eyes of a Polish orphan on the run from the Nazis. --Booklist, Starred review This is a superb addition to the canon of young adult literature. --Jewish Book World Unforgettable. . . a powerful story about one small boy's courage during a horrifying period of history. A heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story. -- The Midwest Book Review
An extremely powerful book. Readers will be gripped by this story of a young orphan in Warsaw. -- Boston Herald Jerry Spinelli has fashioned a novel of beauty out of the ugliness of the Holocaust. It is a superb book, one of the best you will read. -- BookPage Stunning. -- Kirkus Reviews, Starred Spinelli creates a masterful achievement, a war story to be put alongside J. G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun and a literary accompaniement to Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful. -- VOYA An unforgettable novel. -- Library Media Connection, Starred Part survival adventure, part Holocaust history, [this] novel tells the story through the eyes of a Polish orphan on the run from the Nazis. -- Booklist, Starred review This is a superb addition to the canon of young adult literature. -- Jewish Book World Unforgettable. . . a powerful story about one small boy's courage during a horrifying period of history. A heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story. -- The Midwest Book Review
An extremely powerful book. Readers will be gripped by this story of a young orphan in Warsaw. -- <i>Boston Herald Jerry Spinelli has fashioned a novel of beauty out of the ugliness of the Holocaust. It is a superb book, one of the best you will read. -- <i>BookPage</i> Stunning. -- <i>Kirkus Reviews, </i> Starred Spinelli creates a masterful achievement, a war story to be put alongside J. G. Ballard's <i>Empire of the Sun</i> and a literary accompaniement to Roberto Benigni's <i>Life Is Beautiful</i>. -- <i>VOYA</i> An unforgettable novel. --<i>Library Media Connection</i>, Starred Part survival adventure, part Holocaust history, [this] novel tells the story through the eyes of a Polish orphan on the run from the Nazis. --<i>Booklist</i>, Starred review This is a superb addition to the canon of young adult literature. --<i>Jewish Book World</i> Unforgettable. . . a powerful story about one small boy's courage during a horrifying period of history. A heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story. -- <i>The Midwest Book Review</i>
Author Information
JERRY SPINELLI is the author of many novels for young readers, including Dead Wednesday, The Warden's Daughter; Stargirl; Love, Stargirl; Milkweed; Crash; Wringer; and Maniac Magee, winner of the Newbery Medal; along with Knots in My Yo-Yo String, the autobiography of his childhood. A graduate of Gettysburg College, he lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, poet and author Eileen Spinelli.
