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The Man From the Other Side
[Paperback - 1995]
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Category: Children
Additional Category: Social Themes - Children Religious Fiction
Publisher: Puffin Books | ISBN: 9780140370881 | Pages: 192
Shipping Weight: .125 | Dimensions: 4.41 x .51 x 6.96 inches

Marek has never thought about the Jewish people who live in the Warsaw Ghetto near his home—until he helps his stepfather smuggle food and guns through the sewer to sell there. Even then, he does not truly understand what it means to be isolated, persecuted, and faced with almost certain death at the hands of the Nazis. Then Marek meets a Jewish man on the run—and, in helping him, is thrust into the middle of an uprising.
 
“From the first page, this grabs you like a thriller.”—Booklist, starred review
 
“Subtle, beautifully crafted, altogether compelling.”—Kirkus Reviews, pointer review

"This is a story of individual bravery and national shame that highlights just how hopeless was the fate of the Warsaw Jews as they fought alone and heroically against the Nazi war machine." —School Library Journal, starred review

Uri Orlev (Hebrew: אורי אורלב; born Jerzy Henryk Orlowski in 1931) is an award-winning Israeli children's author and translator of Polish-Jewish origin. Born in Warsaw, Poland, he survived the war years in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (where he was sent after his mother was shot by the Nazis). After the war he moved to Israel. He began writing children's literature in 1976 and has since published over 30 books, which are often biographical. His books have been translated from Hebrew into 25 languages, while he himself has also translated Polish literature into Hebrew. One of his most famous books, which was also adapted as a play and as a film, is the semi-autobiographical The Island on Bird Street.In 1996 Orlev received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's literature.

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