Then
In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.
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Survival fiction. Historical fiction. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 0805090274
- ISBN: 9780805090277
- ISBN: 9781250003416
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Physical Description
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198 pages - Edition 1st American ed.
- Publisher New York : Henry Holt, 2010.
- Copyright ©2008
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General Note: | Originally published: Camberwell, Vic. : Penguin Group (Australia), 2008. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 18.69 |
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Summary
Then
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.