- Jews, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945
Once by Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied Poland of the Second World War.
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- Author
- Morris Gleitzman
- First published
- October 30, 2005
- Pages
- 163
- Publisher
- Square Fish, Holt & Company, Henry, Galaxy
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780143301950
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“Once I was living in an orphanage in the mountains and I shouldn't have been and I almost caused a riot.”
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