Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5318092
EAN num: 9780439163897
ISBN number: 0439163897
Label: Scholastic Press
Manufacturer: Scholastic Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: February 01, 2002
Publishing house: Scholastic Press
Age index: Young Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 786984
Studio: Scholastic Press
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A man went to knock at the king's door and said to him, Give me a boat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the door for petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting by the door for favors (favors being done to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocking on the door for petitions, he would pretend not to hear . . .' Why the petitioner required a boat, where he was bound for, and who volunteered to crew for him the reader will discover as this short narrative unfolds. And at the end it will be clear that if we thought we were reading a children's fable we were wrong-we have been reading a love story and a philosophical tale worthy of Voltaire or Swift.
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At just nine years old, Germany had invaded Poland, in 1939, during the World War II. Poland was the home country of Yehuda Nir. By 1941, Nir's father was arrested. Soon after the Germans executed him along with many innocent people. When Nir was 11 years old, he and his mother and his teenage sister Lala, were forced to move to one country to another, disguised as Polish Catholics, to be able to survive in that dangerous period of time. One thing that I liked about this book, was that it was well described. I was able to picture most of the scenes from the book. In my senior English class, we learned how to write essays describing the scenes of out topics very well. So everyone would have an image well described in their minds of what we were talking about. This book is a good example of explaining things clearly. Although it was a sad, brutal, scary, dramatically, bloody book, it was a good reading book.
Another thing that I liked about this book, was that it was well understanding. In the cover of the book there is a little boy (who it is Nir,) I thought that it was going to be a little kids book. When I started to read more and more I learned that it is actually a book for a more mature minded audience. Although the book started when Nir was a kid, throughout the book I learned that he wasn't able to have a normal childhood. At a young age he became 'the man of the house.' At this time Hitler was trying to conquest most of the world. I recommend this book to anyone who would like to know how life was at this time of life.
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At just nine years old, Germany had invaded Poland, in 1939, during the World War II. Poland was the home country of Yehuda Nir. By 1941, Nir's father was arrested. Soon after the Germans executed him along with many innocent people. When Nir was 11 years old, he and his mother and his teenage sister Lala, were forced to move to one country to another, disguised as Polish Catholics, to be able to survive in that dangerous period of time. One thing that I liked about this book, was that it was well described. I was able to picture most of the scenes from the book. In my senior English class, we learned how to write essays describing the scenes of out topics very well. So everyone would have an image well described in their minds of what we were talking about. This book is a good example of explaining things clearly. Although it was a sad, brutal, scary, dramatically, bloody book, it was a good reading book.
Another thing that I lied about this boo, was that it was well understanding. In the cover of the book there is a little boy (who it is Nir,) I thought that it was going to be a little kids book. When I started to read more and more I learned that it is actually a book for a more mature minded audience. Although the book started when Nir was a kid, throughout the book I learned that he wasn't able to have a normal childhood. At a young age he became 'the man of the house.' At this time Hitler was trying to conquest most of the world. I recommend this book to anyone who would like to know how life was at this time of life.
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