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Author:

Orlev, Uri, 1931-

Title:

The island on Bird Street / Uri Orlev ; translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin,

Copyright Date:

1992, c1983

Description:

162 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
Jews--Poland--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Fiction.
Poland--Fiction.--Occupation, 1939-1945--Fiction.

Other Titles:

I bi-Re*hov ha-tsiporim. English

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: 1983. Translation of: ha-I bi-Re*hov ha-tsiporim.

Summary:

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.
Eleven-year-old Alex takes refuge in an abandoned building as he struggles to survive on his own in a Jewish ghetto in Warsaw during the Holocaust, in a tale about war and its impact

ISBN:

9780395616239
0395616239

OCLC:

(OCoLC)232845843

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)