A few months ago I was going through my recommendation on Goodreads.com and come across the first book in this trilogy. I like historical fiction, especially when it is set during World War II. I've read other books about Holocaust victims and survivors and found them to my liking but these books are different. As I read them I could see and hear the boy and girl in the book. This trilogy starts in Nazi occupied Poland. Felix is a young Jewish boy who is sent to an orphanage by his parents to keep him safe. He does not realize that they are being sent to a concentration camp and so he leaves the orphanage to find them. On his way home, he encounters a little girl named Zelda, whose parents are Polish but became Nazis and were murdered by Nazis because they found them to be disloyal. Then first book is about Felix and Zelda trying to get to safety. The second book is about them being helped by a Polish woman named Genia. Then, is the hardest book of the three to read because it deals with the cruelty of the Nazis and how they treated those who hid Jews.
Now is about Felix many years after the war. His granddaughter lives with him and he and she must face a terror of their own when the Australian wilderness in which they live catches fire.
The first two books are told in Felix's voice and the author does a greatly job of telling the story they way a little kid would tell it. He doesn't bog the story down in details which makes all three books quick reads. The last book is told in Felix's granddaughter's voice and helps give a different perspective of Felix's story. All three are amazing books and if you like books such as The Book Thief or Number the Stars this is right up your alley. Check them out!
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