When the train that he is on is bombed, Yankele, a young Polish refugee from the Nazi invasion, is separated from his mother and wanders along the tracks, braving hardship and danger, as he searches for his family.
Related: Historical Fiction, Poland, Russia, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
- ISBN: 9780395745137
- Author: Bergman, Tamar
- Translator: Swirsky, Michael
- Published: 1996
- Themes: bomb, Hardship, Holocaust, invasion, Jew, Nazi, refugee, separation, World War II
- Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Poland, Russia, Young Adult (ages 14-18)