The Island on Bird Street

by Orlev, Uri

• ISBN13: 9780395338872
• ISBN10: 0395338875
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1984-03-26
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Uri Orlev was born in Warsaw in 1931. He spent the years 1939–41 in hiding in the Warsaw ghetto with his mother and younger brother. When his mother was killed by the Nazis, he and his brother were sent to Bergen-Belsen. After the war, Orlev went to Israel. He now lives in Jerusalem with his wife and their three children.
In 1996, Uri Orlev received the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition given to an author of children’s books, for his lasting contribution to children’s literature.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Father's Secret	1	(7)
Snow, and Are People Like Trees?	8	(7)
We're Caught, Old Boruch Has a Plan	15	(11)
The Ruined House	26	(7)
My First Venture Out, and the Gryns	33	(12)
Worthless Treasure	45	(5)
I'm Hungry, But So Are They	50	(6)
The Pistol Really Shoots	56	(8)
Looters	64	(7)
The Larder and the Bird Floor	71	(8)
The Bunker	79	(6)
The Girl Who Did Homework	85	(11)
The Uprising	96	(10)
To the Doctor	106	(8)
The Operation	114	(6)
Bolek	120	(12)
Winter	132	(7)
The Nicest Day	139	(8)
The Poles Arrive	147	(8)
Crying Can Be Catching, Just Like Laughter	155