Best Selling Books by Uri Orlev

A novel about the experiences of a Jewish boy and his father during the Holocaust in Poland.

Run, Boy, Run is the extraordinary account of one boy''s survival of the Holocaust. Srulik is only eight years old when he finds himself all alone in the Warsaw ghetto. He escapes into the countryside where he spends the ensuing years hiding in the forest, dependent on the sympathies and generosity of the poor farmers in the surrounding area. Despite the seemingly insurmountable odds, several chases, captures, attempted executions, and even the loss of his arm, Srulik miraculously survives.

Michael’s grandfather has a secret—a secret that’s almost too strange to share . . . When Michael moves to Israel, he leaves loneliness behind and steps into the light of his grandfather’s magic. Like a sorcerer’s apprentice, Michael learns how to blur the lines between dreams and reality when his grandfather hands down the most precious of gifts—a gift that allows Michael passage into his grandfather’s dreams. Written with a quiet simplicity that wins the reader over at once Uri Orlev writes in a style so sure and yet so unassuming that it is certain to linger in reader’s minds long after turning the last page.

Living on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, fourteen-year-old Marek and his grandparents shelter a Jewish man in the days before the Jewish uprising.

In 1947, seventeen-year-old Yulek, the only member of his immediate family to survive the German concentration camps, joins a group of young Jews preparing to live on a kibbutz in Israel, unaware that his aunt living in London is looking for him.

Lydia is a survivor, escaping to Palestine from Romania during World War II to become a resident of a kibbutz.

Una novela apasionante y divertida, siempre escrita desde la perspectiva de una niña judía, contada con la autenticidad y espontaneidad de una autobiografía. Lidia es encantadora, indomable y magníficamente libre de espíritu para su edad. Es una historia ambientada con fuerza en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la niña sufre las consecuencias de esos terribles tiempos: ausencias, angustias, divorcio de los padres y camino lleno de esperanzas y miedos hacia la tierra de Palestina. Uri Orlev ha creado una verdadera y original protagonista, que se gana nuestra admiración y simpatía y que los jóvenes lectores van a querer desde el primer momento.

Varsovia, Segunda Guerra Mundial, asedio nazi sobre los judíos polacos... En esta novela la historia nos habla de injusticias, de sufrimientos, de marginados y perseguidos. Sin embargo, a través de los ojos del joven Yúrek se abre una puerta a la solidaridad, a la amistad, a la esperanza de un futuro de paz donde ya no existan vencedores ni vencidos.

Miguelito recibió el mejor regalo de cumpleaños: una camiseta con el dibujo de un león. El esta muy emocionado, hasta que descubre que el león se ha despertado y que tiene su propio carácter.

In this compelling novel that takes place in Poland during World War II, a devout young Catholic boy discovers that you shouldn''t judge people based on hearsay. Marek is convinced that the Jews are ugly people with strange habits until his contact with a Jewish escapee from the Warsaw ghetto and his mother''s secret revelations about his own background prove him wrong. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.

La abuela tejedora llega a una peque a ciudad. Teje su casa con jard n y tambi n teje un par de nietos. Cuando lleva a los ni os de estambre a la escuela, no todos est n dispuestos a quererlos como ella. Ante los prejuicios de la gente, la abuela debe tomar una medida dr stica.

»Wir haben viele Bücher über jüdische Schicksale in der Nazizeit, dies ist eines der besten. Ein ganz großer, in sich ruhender Roman. Unvergesslich.« Berliner Morgenpost Jurek ist elf, als er mit seiner Mutter und dem jüngeren Bruder Kazik ins Warschauer Ghetto kommt. Es ist kein leichtes Leben, doch Jurek und Kazik sind noch arglos: Sie wissen, dass Krieg herrscht, und spielen ihn mit ihren Bleisoldaten nach. Was es in diesen Zeiten heißt, Jude zu sein, begreifen sie erst allmählich. Das Leben im Ghetto wird zunehmend schwerer, mit jedem Tag steigt die Gefahr, gefangengenommen und deportiert zu werden. Immer wieder müssen die Brüder flüchten und ihre Verstecke wechseln. Dem Schicksal können sie dennoch nicht entgehen und kommen in das Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen – das beide aber am Ende überleben.

In this novel "the Nazi occupation of Poland is seen through the eyes of a samll boy, Yurik, who with his younger brother, Kazik, manages to survive by transmuting the horrors around them into an ingenious series of children''s games."

L’autobiografia di Uri Orlev, il più grande scrittore israeliano per ragazzi, autore dell’Isola in via degli uccelli. Questa è la storia di come un ragazzo ebreo attraversa l’Olocausto e diventa scrittore. Ma non è un racconto di disperazione, malgrado le atrocità e le tante morti di cui l’autore purtroppo da piccolo è stato testimone, né di sentimentalismi. Orlev ha vissuto esattamente come un bambino qualsiasi, con il coraggio e la straordinaria forza vitale dell’infanzia, come il protagonista di un’avventura, eroe invincibile di un racconto.

Based on the true story of a nine-year-old boy who escapes the Warsaw Ghetto and must survive throughout the war in the Nazi-occupied Polish countryside. Run, Boy, Run is the extraordinary account of one boy"s survival of the Holocaust. Srulik is only eight years old when he finds himself all alone in the Warsaw ghetto. He escapes into the countryside where he spends the ensuing years hiding in the forest, dependent on the sympathies and generosity of the poor farmers in the surrounding area. Despite the seemingly insurmountable odds, several chases, captures, attempted executions, and even the loss of his arm, Srulik miraculously survives.

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.

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.

Three-year-old Michael hates having his hair washed in the bathtub every Tuesday night, a time when he cries and cries.

A young boy who lives in Jerusalem amidst war and unrest learns that once he tames the monster under his bed, it can actually become a special friend he can turn to for comfort and protection. He thus begins to cope with feelings of fear, examines cultural conflict, deals with the loss of his father, and learns to accept his mother''s new companion. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.

Alex, onze ans, petit garçon juif de Pologne a vu le monde s''écrouler autour de lui : sa mère arrêtée, ses amis disparus... Et voilà que les Allemands emmènent son père, ainsi que tous les habitants de la rue. Alex se retrouve seul dans le ghetto vide et s''aménage une cachette, une " île " où il tente d''organiser son attente. Les mois passent, les espoirs s''amenuisent. Soudain, une voix, venue d''un monde oublié...

Lo cotidiano puede resultar insólito para los niños. En especial si es una niña como Daniela. Ella es mas grande que su gato y su prima pero mas pequeña que los niños del jardín infantil. Eso a ella le molesta porque quiere ser grande. Una noche crece vertiginosamente y ahí comienza esta maravillosa historia...

Jonathans Schnuller ist etwas Besonderes. Deswegen ist die Not auch immer gross, wenn er verschwindet. Aber das soll jetzt anders werden. - Ab 3.

The lion on Michael''s T-shirt comes to life and jumps off, and Michael must convince him to get back onto the shirt before his parents find out.

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.

Based on the true story of a nine-year-old boy who escapes the Warsaw Ghetto and must survive throughout the war in the Nazi-occupied Polish countryside. Run, Boy, Run is the extraordinary account of one boy"s survival of the Holocaust. Srulik is only eight years old when he finds himself all alone in the Warsaw ghetto. He escapes into the countryside where he spends the ensuing years hiding in the forest, dependent on the sympathies and generosity of the poor farmers in the surrounding area. Despite the seemingly insurmountable odds, several chases, captures, attempted executions, and even the loss of his arm, Srulik miraculously survives.