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Original Title:	Once
ISBN:	014132063X (ISBN13: 9780141320632)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Once #1
Literary Awards:	Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALA) for Fiction for years 7-9 (2007), Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Nominee for Preis der Jugendjury (2010), Katholischer Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis (2011)

Once (Once #1)

Morris Gleitzman

Paperback | Pages: 149 pages

Rating: 4.24 | 17349 Users | 1902 Reviews

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Title	:	Once (Once #1)
Author	:	Morris Gleitzman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 149 pages
Published	:	February 23rd 2006 by Puffin Books (first published 2005)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. World War II. Holocaust. War. Fiction

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Once by Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied Poland of the Second World War.

Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least Once.

Once I escaped from an orphanage to find Mum and Dad.

Once I saved a girl called Zelda from a burning house.

Once I made a Nazi with a toothache laugh.

My name is Felix. This is my story.

Once is the first in a series of children's novels about Felix, a Jewish orphan caught in the middle of the Holocaust, from Australian author Morris Gleitzman - author of Bumface and Boy Overboard. The next books in the series Then, Now and After are also available from Puffin.

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Ratings: 4.24 From 17349 Users | 1902 Reviews

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When I was young 'un, we had this storytelling board game in our house. If memory serves me right, it was called, simply, "Once..."The basis of the game was to create a story from a card prompt and people had to guess whether it was true or not - or something like that anyway.As many things do, at first this game went over my head a bit. *swoosh* Because in my everyday life, whenever I would try to make up a story (or more accurately - what you might call a white lie) to my friends or family,

A beautiful and tragic Holocaust story, told through the innocent eyes of a nine-year-old boy. Sheltered in a Polish orphanage, posing as a Catholic, he has no idea what's going on around him until he runs away to find his parents. What he witnesses he at first does not understand, but the reader does and gradually Felix's naiteve is stripped away. If you like Jerry Spinelli's Milkweed, you'll love Once.

What can you say about a book with a small child living through the Holocaust. The story focuses on Felix, a small 10 year old Jewish boy, who is living in an orphanage. His parents put him in this place a little over three years ago for safety. So he isn't exactly an orphan. Felix is very naive and believes the Nazi's are burning books because they don't like books and sets off to find his parents and save all the books in his parents book store. I was a bit shocked initially how naive he is

Once is a remarkable story. Despite the evident terrors in the book, there is also a great deal of humour and warmth. Gleitzman has you smiling at one paragraph and grimacing at the next. An equally breathtaking and yet heartbreaking story, that portrays the suffering and misery of the Holocaust with grace and sincerity.

What a wonderful story - Felix is a young Jewish boy in WWII Poland sets off from an orphanage to find his missing parents. He thinks Nazi's are book burners and his parents have gone off somewhere to hide the books in their store. They have been gone over 3 years.As he travels he sees horrendous events but in his innocence he is not realising what he is seeing. He saves a younger girl called Zelda and in turn they are saved.Gradually as the story progresses Felix's innocence falls away and

Just because this books is about the holocaust, it doesn't mean it's good. People always over rate these kind of books.The book is full of modern day phrases that weren't around in the forties. Plus, it's tedious and the main character isn't believable at all. However, I've read worse.

This is an all in one sitting type of read, and I did read it all in one day. Its told from the point of view of a 9-10 year old Jewish boy, a storyteller, whos caught up in the Holocaust. This story is powerful, compelling, and so very sad, yet somehow uplifting too, and even amusing every once in a while. Ill be thinking quite a bit about Felix, Zelda, Barney, and some other characters. Felix is a fine narrator and everyone and everything come across very vividly. The authors note at the end