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I Am David

Anne Holm

Start date: November 1, 2021

Finish date: November 30, 2021

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Nov 04, 2015 Karen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: travel-the-world, travel-2023

In an update that I made earlier this week in this book, I mentioned that this book was set in WII. I was wrong (sorry, it has been several years since I last read this book). I believe it was set in an Iron Curtain country, north of Salonika (possibly Bulgaria)

David is 12 years old, and has lived in a concentration camp all his life. The commandant has been transferred and tells David that he must escape the camp, before the new commandant arrives. David should head south to Salonika, board a s ...more

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Nov 13, 2009 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: audio-books, hf-world-war-ii, read-2009

Dramatisation of the novel by Anne Holm about a boy who flees a Stalinist concertration camp, embarking on many adventures on his jouney to Denmark.

We need some tissues around in order to read this book. The theme reminds me The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, both quite touching books.

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