Book Lists

Best Selling Books by Uri Orlev

Uri Orlev is the author of The Island on Bird Street (1984), The Man from the Other Side (1991), Run, Boy, Run (2003), Soldados de plomo (ebook) (2012), Lydia, Queen of Palestine (1993).

1 - 40 of 300 results
>>

The Island on Bird Street

The Island on Bird Street
A novel about the experiences of a Jewish boy and his father during the Holocaust in Poland.

The Man from the Other Side

release date: Jan 01, 1991
The Man from the Other Side
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.

Run, Boy, Run

release date: Jan 01, 2003
Run, Boy, Run
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.

Soldados de plomo (ebook)

release date: Oct 26, 2012
Soldados de plomo (ebook)
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.

Lydia, Queen of Palestine

release date: Jan 01, 1993
Lydia, Queen of Palestine
Lydia is a survivor, escaping to Palestine from Romania during World War II to become a resident of a kibbutz.

The Song of the Whales

release date: Apr 12, 2010
The Song of the Whales
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.

The Lady with the Hat

release date: Jan 01, 1997
The Lady with the Hat
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.

Das kleine große Mädchen

release date: Jan 01, 2001

Lidia, reina de Palestina

release date: Jan 01, 1998
Lidia, reina de Palestina
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.

El león de regalo

release date: Jan 01, 2005
El león de regalo
Miguelito recibió el mejor regalo de cumpleaños: una camiseta con el dibujo de un león. El esta muy emocionado, hasta que descubre que el león se ha despertado y que tiene su propio carácter.

Das Sandspiel

release date: Jan 01, 1997

The Lead Soldiers

The Lead Soldiers
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."

Die Bleisoldaten

release date: Feb 28, 2011
Die Bleisoldaten
»Wir haben viele Bücher über jüdische Schicksale in der Nazizeit, dies ist eines der besten. Ein ganz großer, in sich ruhender Roman. Unvergesslich.« Berliner Morgenpost Jurek ist elf, als er mit seiner Mutter und dem jüngeren Bruder Kazik ins Warschauer Ghetto kommt. Es ist kein leichtes Leben, doch Jurek und Kazik sind noch arglos: Sie wissen, dass Krieg herrscht, und spielen ihn mit ihren Bleisoldaten nach. Was es in diesen Zeiten heißt, Jude zu sein, begreifen sie erst allmählich. Das Leben im Ghetto wird zunehmend schwerer, mit jedem Tag steigt die Gefahr, gefangengenommen und deportiert zu werden. Immer wieder müssen die Brüder flüchten und ihre Verstecke wechseln. Dem Schicksal können sie dennoch nicht entgehen und kommen in das Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen – das beide aber am Ende überleben.

El hombre del otro lado

release date: Jan 01, 1999
El hombre del otro lado
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.

Granny Knits

release date: Jan 01, 1999

The Sandgame

release date: Jan 01, 1999

Une île, rue des oiseaux

release date: Jan 01, 2002
Une île, rue des oiseaux
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...

La pequeña niña grande

release date: Jan 01, 1999
La pequeña niña grande
Lo cotidiano puede resultar insólito para los niños. En especial si es una niña como Daniela. Ella es mas grande que su gato y su prima pero mas pequeña que los niños del jardín infantil. Eso a ella le molesta porque quiere ser grande. Una noche crece vertiginosamente y ahí comienza esta maravillosa historia...
1 - 40 of 300 results
>>


  • Aboutread.com makes it one-click away to discover great books from local library by linking books/movies to your library catalog search.

  • Copyright © 2026 Aboutread.com