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Once is about Felix, a 10 year old Jewish boy who lives in an orphanage, in Poland, 1942. He gets a message from his parents in the form as a carrot in his soup. He runs away in the search of his long-lost parents, and ends up caught in with the rest of the Jewish.

What killed was Felix and Zelda's innocence. They knew nothing about what was happening and why. Felix thought that the Nazis were here to burn all the Jewish bookseller's books and arrest them. He thought that the Nazi that shot directly at him had misfired his gun, and it was all a mistake. But it wasn't, but they didn't know that. They thought one thing, but it was the total opposite.

This story had great plot, and captured everything a child Felix's age would do. It is not like some young adult world war two books, were it is about teenage love and the person knows everything that is happening, but it is about how they knew NOTHING.

This book broke my heart, and it surely will and would of done to everyone's else. This book needs to read so that the children who knew nothing and did nothing will not be forgotten.