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Morris Gleitzman

Publisher

Henry Holt & Co. (BYR)

Genre(s)

Historical Fiction

Age Range

12+

Release Date

May 10, 2011

ISBN

0805090274

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Felix and Zelda have escaped the train to the death camp, but where do they go now? They're two runaway kids in Nazi-occupied Poland. Danger lies at every turn of the road.

With the help of a woman named Genia and their active imaginations, Felix and Zelda find a new home and begin to heal, forming a new family together. But can it last?

Morris Gleitzman's winning characters will tug at readers' hearts as they struggle to survive in the harsh political climate of Poland in 1942. Their lives are difficult, but they always remember what matters: family, love, and hope.

Felix and Zelda have escaped the train to the death camp, but where do they go now? They're two runaway kids in Nazi-occupied Poland. Danger lies at every turn of the road.

With the help of a woman named Genia and their active imaginations, Felix and Zelda find a new home and begin to heal, forming a new family together. But can it last?

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The second of a heartbreaking series

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Then is the second book in this series by Morris Gleitzman, set in the middle of World War Two. The main character is a young boy called Felix, who is a Jew, but no one other than Zelda knows, the six-year old he saved from a burning house. Together they kidnapped by the Nazis, escaped from them and lived with other children in a basement until they were captured and put on a train headed for a death camp. They jumped from a moving train and managed to dodge the machine gun bullets and escape into the forest. This book is about what happens to them Then and onwards.

This book had more love in it with the introduction of Leopold the dog and his owner. For both of them, this is what let them survive the harsh terrain of Poland, and for them to live a bit of a true childhood, and tells them what really matters.

Yet again, Morris Gleitzman has managed to capture the power of being a child in this point in history, and has also managed to display it such a manner that it makes you cry waterfalls.

This book must be read by every single person on the globe who can read because otherwise these children's stories will be forgotten, and that must never happen. READ IT NOW!!!!

Good Points

-Captures the feel of a child's innocence.
-Teaches that even in the worst of times, family, love and hope is what lets you survive.