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The Island on Bird Street
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780395616239
ISBN: 0395616239
Label: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: January 20, 1992
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books
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Editorial Review:
During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
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Rating:  - Robinson Crusoe in the 'Warsaw Ghetto'
This story of struggle for survival in the Warsaw Ghetto does not dwell on the horrors and detail the sufferings of the Ghetto. Instead it presents a kind of Robinson Crusoe-like adventure tale in which young Alex, his mother having died, and his father having been taken away, must learn to fend for himself. He goes through a series of adventures in which his mettle is tested, and in the end the longed- for reunion with his father takes place.
The resourcefulness and resilience of the major ... Read More
Rating:  - The Island on Bird Street
The Island on Bird Street was inspired by the author, Uri Orlev, reading The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. It was also based on Uri Orlev's life experience. The Island on Bird Street was translated out of Hebrew by Hillel Halkin. The book takes place during World War II. An eleven year old Polish Jewish boy named Alex struggles to survive around a "ghetto" that the Germans have condemned the Jews to live within.
In the beginning of the story, Alex's mother ... Read More
Rating:  - The Island on Bird Street
Would you want to be a Jew when you are getting ready to be killed by the Germans will I am going to tell you the book it's by Uri Orlev and the book title is The Island on Bird Street.
This story is about a young boy that is a Jew and his mom helps the needy Jews and one day she did not come back and the next day they where sending Jews off to trying camps.
So she don't come back. So the boy goes and tries to find his mom. While he was gone they take his dad and when the boy comes ... Read More
Rating: - A must read for all boys!
It is so difficult to find reading materials that boys will actually find interesting, but this can easily fit the bill.
Although it is most often seen as a holocaust story, and a good one at that, it is a memoir of a young boy's resourcefulness, compassion and humanity in the face of unbelievable circumstances.
Not only will boys learn about a period of history that is probably new to them, but they will be intriqued and entralled by Alec's adventures.
Rating: - No boy is an island. Save one.
It is the dearest wish of my heart that maybe, someday, I will be lucky enough to someday become a real honest-to-goodness children's book reviewer. To succeed in this goal, however, I feel that I must give myself a thorough background in children's books. As a result, I've found myself reviewing many books that, while considered "classics" are stories I would not be reading today if it weren't for their cultural cache. I'm saying all of this because I want you to understand fully why I did not want to ... Read More
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