The Island on Bird Street

Uri Orlev First published 1984

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • children's fiction
  • fiction
  • history
  • holocaust, jewish (1939-1945)
  • holocaust survivors, fiction
  • jews
  • jews, history, fiction
  • juvenile fiction
  • poland, fiction
  • warsaw (poland), fiction
  • world war, 1939-1945
  • world war, 1939-1945, fiction