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.

Related: Germany, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Poland

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• ISBN: 9780395338872
• Author: Orlev, Uri
• Translator: Halkin, Hillel
• Published: 1984, Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books
• Themes: Fear, Holocaust, Jew, Occupation, overcoming, Survival, War, Warsaw, World War II
• Descriptors: Germany, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Poland
• No. of pages: 176