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baby books at borders
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Do you recognize this book description?
I may be confusing two books here, so bear with me. I remember reading a book in middle school (7-9 years ago) about a little boy who ran away from Nazi Germany (maybe he was Polish?), I think. He ends up getting separated from his dad and living on the streets, sometimes by himself and sometimes with other run away teens. During the border crossing the boy found a pocket knife issued to soldiers and kept it for himself.
He was very young, I remember he was arrested once for shoplifting and was small enough to slide through the bars of the window. Some of the teens he used to run around with were a boy and girl couple, and the girl got pregnant and was put in a teen home for girls until she gave birth and her baby was taken away, at which point she escaped. Another part of the story that stands out is how the other kids taught him that if you dug a whole in a giant coal pile, down to where the embers were still hot, you could stick potatoes and stuff in there to cook them.
“Run Boy, Run” by Uri Orlev?
http://www.amazon.com/Run-Boy-Uri-Orlev/dp/0618957065/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205277048&sr=1-1
“abandoned by his parent. Unable to navigate the large town without her, he joins up with a band of ragamuffin orphans. Thus begins the tale of Srulik’s continual escape from authorities and the false stories that keep him alive. He escapes the ghetto and joins up with another pack of boys. He meets his father unexpectedly and is advised to act like a Christian to stay alive. He tends animals, is beaten by a variety of different adults, is captured by the Germans (and escapes) multiple times, looses his right arm, and survives in the end.”
Hey Baby ( The Buckinghams ) 11-01-08
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Jugglers at the Border (Baby Shark) £5.33 … |