The boy who didn't want to die
Lantos, Peter L., 1939-2023
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'The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die' describes an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945. Peter and his parents set out from a small Hungarian town, travelling through Austria and then Germany together. Along the way, unforgettable images of adventure flash one after another: sleeping in a tent and then under the sky, discovering a disused brick factory, catching butterflies in the meadows - and as Peter realises that this adventure is really a nightmare - watching bombs falling from the blue sky outside Vienna, learning maths from his mother in Belsen. All this is drawn against a background of terror, starvation, infection and, inevitably, death, before Peter and his mother can return home.
Main title:
The boy who didn't want to die / Peter Lantos.
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Imprint:
London : Scholastic, 2023.London : Scholastic, 2023.
Collation:
215 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Audience:
Juvenile.
ISBN:
9780702323089 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.53
Language:
English
Subject:
Lantos, Peter L., 1939- -- Juvenile literatureBergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) -- Juvenile literatureWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Juvenile literatureWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Hungarian -- Juvenile literatureNon-Fiction 9+History and WarfareAustriaGermanyHungaryInterest age: from c 8 yearsInterest age: from c 12 years
BRN:
2724882