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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
This is one of the books that stands out quite vividly from my younger years of reading. I loved it, and it may have been what started my interest in WWII.
THIS BOOK. Gah. This is another one where I forget the title and periodically have to google to remember it. NEVER AGAIN.
challenging
dark
inspiring
sad
tense
Rudi Kaplan is a young Christian Jew living in Warsaw. When the Nazi army invades his city, life grows increasingly difficult. When things are tough, though, Rudi knows he can depend on his father. That is, until his father tells him he must leave. As he struggles to survive the war, Rudi must learn to trust his heavenly father as well as his earthly one.
Audience: 11 and up, or family read-aloud
Audience: 11 and up, or family read-aloud
A good middle grades WW2 Christian fiction book. It has some suspenseful moments, but never elevates above its intended audience. I admired Rudi's relationship with his father, and his father's promise to him when they had to be separated. Although I thought it unlikely that Rudi's father would have made it through the war having been captured so early on, and that Rudi could have survived on his own in the forest so long.
The writing is good, but not great. However, it is a sweet book and Rudi is a worthy role model.
The writing is good, but not great. However, it is a sweet book and Rudi is a worthy role model.
I read this I think in 5th Grade. I went to an extremely religious school so religious books were sometimes the focus. I'm not a religious person at all, but this was still a fairly good book. I find myself thinking about it randomly sometimes remembering small snippets that stood out over the years. I had actually forgotten it was such a "christian" book since it's been so long since I read it and the only parts that stuck with me where the horrors of living in hiding in Nazi occupied Poland.