Lydia, Queen of Palestine (Puffin Book)

Echoes of the White Giraffe

Day My Father Became a Bush

Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust

Hatchet

Black Radishes

Burying the Sun

Missy Violet and Me

"'Srulik, there's no time. I want you to remember what I'm going to tell you. You have to stay alive. You have to! Get someone to teach you how to act like a Christian, how to cross yourself and pray. . . . The most important thing, Srulik,' he said, talking fast, 'is to forget your name. Wipe it from your memory. . . . But even if you forget everything—even if you forget me and Mama—never forget that you're a Jew.'"And so, at only eight years old, Srulik Frydman says goodbye to his father for the last time and becomes Jurek Staniak, an orphan on the run in the Polish countryside at the height of the Holocaust. With the danger of capture by German soldiers ever-present, Jurek must fight against starvation, the punishing Polish winters, and widespread anti-Semitism as he desperately searches for refuge. Told with the unflinching honesty and unique perspective of such a young child, Run, Boy, Run is the extraordinary account of one boy's struggle to stay alive in the face of almost insurmountable odds—a story all the more incredible because it is true.

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Lydia, Queen of Palestine (Puffin Book)

Hillel Halkin, Hillel Halwin, Uri Orlev, 1991

Echoes of the White Giraffe

Sook Nyul Choi, 1993

Day My Father Became a Bush

Joke Van Leeuwen, Bill Nagelkerke, 2010

Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust

Renee Hartman, Joshua Greene, 2021

Hatchet

Gary Paulsen, 2005

Black Radishes

Susan Lynn Meyer, 2010

Burying the Sun

Gloria Whelan, 2004

Missy Violet and Me

Barbara Hathaway, 2004