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Once

Morris Gleitzman

2005149 pagesabout 2–3 hours
2005
first published
  • 2005Penguin · 150 pages · ENG
  • 2006Puffin · 149 pages · ENGISBN 9780141320632
  • 2010Holt & Company, Henry · 176 pages · ENGISBN 9781429922340
  • 2013Square Fish · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780312653040
  • 2020ebony besant · ENGISBN 9780805090260
  • 2012Bolinda AudioISBN 9781743108956
  • 2005Bolinda Publishing · ENGISBN 9781740936910
  • 2014Bolinda AudioISBN 9781486219629

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 am 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.

How it feels

MoodSad
AtmosphereBleak

How it reads

Character focusSingle lead

Worth knowing

ViolenceFrequent

When and where

Reading situationRead aloud

Content notes

  • Warmoderateunreviewed
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