Once Jacob Gutgeld lived with his family in a beautiful house in Warsaw, Poland. He went to school and played hide-and-seek in the woods with his friends. But everything changed the day the Nazi soldiers invaded in 1939. Suddenly it wasn't safe to be Jewish anymore.
Awards
Awards
WINNER 1995 Arkansas Charlie May Simon Master List NOMINEE 1995 Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award WINNER 1996 Massachusetts Children's Book Master List
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