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"The first middle-grade book from a picture book master--a harrowing, heartrending, illustrated account of his childhood escape from the terrors of war"-- Publisher.

"From celebrated Caldecott Award-winning illustrator Uri Shulevitz comes the gripping and revealing true story of a young Polish exile fighting to survive in war-torn Europe"-- Provided by publisher. "Born amid the tumult of World War I, a young Jewish boy named Yehiel Szulewicz (the real-life uncle of author and illustrator Uri Shulevitz) feels stifled by the limits of his hometown of Żyrardów, Poland, and at the rules set in place by his very...