...relive the adventures of a small orphan in this gripping read...


Run, Boy, Run
by Uri Orlev
Translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin


Published:  Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2003.  192 pages.
Reading Appeal:  Young Adult


This moving story is written by Uri Orlev, a Holocaust surviver, who now lives in Israel.  He based this novel on a young boy's true life experience.
       Faction (based on a true story)                                   Heart-wrenching
The main character in this tale is a young, orphaned Jewish boy, aged 8.  He is named Srulik.  He is trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto, in Poland, during World War II.  Amazingly, this young boy escapes to the Polish countryside at the height if the Jewish Holocaust, where Poland is ravaged by war and Nazi occupation. 
                                          Authentic
Srulik's greatest challenge is to survive the war, in a country where he is surrounded by anti-semitism and little food.  Finding a safe refuge is his only hope...


...this award winning story is a haunting tale set in a world gone mad...   


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