ABOUT THIS BOOK
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
WINNER 1995 - Arkansas Charlie May Simon Master List
NOMINEE 1995 - Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award
WINNER 1996 - Massachusetts Children's Book Master List