Lonek's Journey: The True Story of a Boy's Escape to Freedom (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781595720214)

Lonek's Journey tells the true story of an 11-year-old Jewish boy's escape from Nazi-occupied Poland and his subsequent deportation to a Siberian gulag. When he is freed from the Russian slave labor camp, he begins a two-year journey over thousands of miles of sea and land, to find freedom in what was then Palestine. This little-known story of the rescue of almost 1000 Jewish children is a story that every one should know. Illustrated with maps and black and white photographs throughout.

Author: Dorit Bader Whiteman
ISBN-10: 1595720219
ISBN-13: 9781595720214
Publisher: Star Bright Books
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2005
Pages: 141
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.26w x 0.66d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.7
Point Value: 4
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 102999 / Lonek's Journey: The True Story of a Boy's Escape to Freedom

Award: Young Hoosier Book Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Review - Children 10/15/2005 pg. 1148
Booklist 11/15/2005 pg. 42
School Library Journal 01/01/2006 pg. 164
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2006 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
Multicultural Review 06/01/2006 pg. 101