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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 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…

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Editions

11 editions · 2 languages
  • Audiobook · English · 2012
    Bolinda Audio · 9781743108956
  • Audiobook · English · 2005
    Bolinda Publishing · 9781740936910
  • Paperback · English
    Puffin Books · 9780141329888
  • Other · English · 2020
    ebony besant · 9780805090260
  • Other · English · 2014
    Bolinda Audio · 9781486219629
  • Other · English · 2013
    Square Fish · 192 pages · 9780312653040
JewsJuvenile fictionFictionWorld War, 1939-1945Separation (Psychology)Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)OrphansSurvival