Annotation
Based on the true story of a nine-year-old boy who escapes the Warsaw Ghetto and must survive throughout the war in the Nazi-occupied Polish countryside.
Awards
2004 Mildred L. Batchelder Award
2004 American Library Association Notable Books for Children
Characters
| Name | Srulik |
| Gender | Boy |
| Trait | Orphan |
| Genre | Fiction Juvenile Historical |
| Topics | Country life Violence Jews History Nazis Emotions Fear |
| Setting | Warsaw, Poland |