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Andrej and Tomas were fleeing from the soldiers with their baby sister Wilma – the soldiers had appeared in the clearing where the Rom gypsy clan had been camped and the three children had been in the woods at the time. Andrej saw what was happening; heard his mother call “run children” - and he urged his younger brother to flee.
Days and weeks of running; hiding during the day, moving and foraging for food during the night brought the three siblings to a village which had been reduced to rubble ...more
Days and weeks of running; hiding during the day, moving and foraging for food during the night brought the three siblings to a village which had been reduced to rubble ...more
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Aug 27, 2011
Janelle
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it was amazing
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This book broke,melted and tore my heart to pieces. I can totally understand why it is an award winning story.
Quite a complex fable that required some thinking and questioning when I finished it. I have my theory about the ending but won't elucidate here. Better if readers make their own decisions about what happens in the end. I am a little surprised that this is a middle school BoB text as it is more complex than most. This year we seem to have a lot of sad books in BoB, or maybe I am just reading all the sad ones first!
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An amazing book! A conbination of historical fiction and fantasy. I am not sure how many teenagers will get all the complexities of this story and the style of story telling. A deeply fasinating story set in Europe during WWII involing three children Wilma (baby) Tomas and the edlest Andrej, gypsies escaping the Germans, and the animals of a zoo in an adandoned town.
What is there to say about Hartnett that hasn't been said before. This book is certainly trageted at the younger of her audience what with the talking animals.
A new take on the atocracise of WWII. Somehwere in Eastern Europe 3 children are being kids and as such are not precenent when the people of their community are rounded up. ...more
A new take on the atocracise of WWII. Somehwere in Eastern Europe 3 children are being kids and as such are not precenent when the people of their community are rounded up. ...more
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Jul 25, 2011
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
marked it as to-read
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