Best Selling Books by Uri Orlev

A novel about the experiences of a Jewish boy and his father during the Holocaust in Poland.

Run, Boy, Run is the extraordinary account of one boy''s survival of the Holocaust. Srulik is only eight years old when he finds himself all alone in the Warsaw ghetto. He escapes into the countryside where he spends the ensuing years hiding in the forest, dependent on the sympathies and generosity of the poor farmers in the surrounding area. Despite the seemingly insurmountable odds, several chases, captures, attempted executions, and even the loss of his arm, Srulik miraculously survives.

Michael’s grandfather has a secret—a secret that’s almost too strange to share . . . When Michael moves to Israel, he leaves loneliness behind and steps into the light of his grandfather’s magic. Like a sorcerer’s apprentice, Michael learns how to blur the lines between dreams and reality when his grandfather hands down the most precious of gifts—a gift that allows Michael passage into his grandfather’s dreams. Written with a quiet simplicity that wins the reader over at once Uri Orlev writes in a style so sure and yet so unassuming that it is certain to linger in reader’s minds long after turning the last page.

Living on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, fourteen-year-old Marek and his grandparents shelter a Jewish man in the days before the Jewish uprising.

Ten-year-old Lydia describes her childhood escapades in pre-World War II Romania, her struggles to understand her parents'' divorce amid the chaos of the war, and her life on a kibbutz in Palestine. Based on the life of the Israeli poet Arianna Haran.

In 1947, seventeen-year-old Yulek, the only member of his immediate family to survive the German concentration camps, joins a group of young Jews preparing to live on a kibbutz in Israel, unaware that his aunt living in London is looking for him.

Una novela apasionante y divertida, siempre escrita desde la perspectiva de una niña judía, contada con la autenticidad y espontaneidad de una autobiografía. Lidia es encantadora, indomable y magníficamente libre de espíritu para su edad. Es una historia ambientada con fuerza en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la niña sufre las consecuencias de esos terribles tiempos: ausencias, angustias, divorcio de los padres y camino lleno de esperanzas y miedos hacia la tierra de Palestina. Uri Orlev ha creado una verdadera y original protagonista, que se gana nuestra admiración y simpatía y que los jóvenes lectores van a querer desde el primer momento.

Varsovia, Segunda Guerra Mundial, asedio nazi sobre los judíos polacos... En esta novela la historia nos habla de injusticias, de sufrimientos, de marginados y perseguidos. Sin embargo, a través de los ojos del joven Yúrek se abre una puerta a la solidaridad, a la amistad, a la esperanza de un futuro de paz donde ya no existan vencedores ni vencidos.

In this compelling novel that takes place in Poland during World War II, a devout young Catholic boy discovers that you shouldn''t judge people based on hearsay. Marek is convinced that the Jews are ugly people with strange habits until his contact with a Jewish escapee from the Warsaw ghetto and his mother''s secret revelations about his own background prove him wrong. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.

In this novel "the Nazi occupation of Poland is seen through the eyes of a samll boy, Yurik, who with his younger brother, Kazik, manages to survive by transmuting the horrors around them into an ingenious series of children''s games."

Alex, onze ans, petit garçon juif de Pologne a vu le monde s''écrouler autour de lui : sa mère arrêtée, ses amis disparus... Et voilà que les Allemands emmènent son père, ainsi que tous les habitants de la rue. Alex se retrouve seul dans le ghetto vide et s''aménage une cachette, une " île " où il tente d''organiser son attente. Les mois passent, les espoirs s''amenuisent. Soudain, une voix, venue d''un monde oublié...