Once by Gleitzman Morris

Author:Gleitzman, Morris [Gleitzman, Morris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Holocaust
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Published: 2010-10-15T07:00:00+00:00

I wake up with a painful light flickering in my eyes.

It’s a candle flame.

Mother Minka always has a candle when she comes into the dormitory at night to give Marek a detention for going to bed with no pajamas on or to whack Borys for throwing Marek’s pajamas out the window or to—

I sit up in panic.

Am I back in the orphanage?

I don’t want to be. I need to find Mum and Dad. I need to warn them. I need to—

A big hairy hand pushes me gently back down. It’s not Mother Minka’s.

A man with a beard is looking down at me, frowning. I’ve seen him somewhere before.

“Are you Father Ludwik?” I say.

My throat hurts. My skin is burning.

The man shakes his head. He wipes my face with a damp cloth.

“Try and rest,” he says.

I can see now he isn’t Father Ludwik, but I don’t know who else he could be. Then I remember. The man with the magic bag. But he’s not speaking Nazi anymore.

Suddenly a girl is looking down at me too.

“He’s Barney,” she says. “Don’t you know anything?”

I know who the girl is, but before I can say her name everything spins away again.

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