Interest Level
Grades 5 - 9
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 5.2
Lexile Measure®: 510L
DRA: 60
Guided Reading: Y
Type of Book: Chapter Book
Genre
- Historical Fiction
Theme/Subject
- Homelessness and Poverty
- Jewish Experience
- World War II
- Holocaust
- Kindness and Compassion
- Tolerance and Acceptance
- Prejudice and Tolerance Experiences
Sensitivity
- Violence
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About This Book
He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham.
He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels. He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi some day, with tall shiny jackboots and a gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind. And when the trains come to empty the Jews from the ghetto of the damned, he's a boy who realizes it's safest of all to be nobody.
Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli takes us to one of the most devastating settings imaginable — Nazi-occupied Warsaw of World War II — and tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through the bright eyes of a young orphan.
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