num_pages: 3
description: Once I escaped from an 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.A story of children in the Holocaust, Once is poignant and powerful without being frightening or graphic. With his gentle and utterly alive manner, Gleitzman reads the tale of Felix, a Jewish boy who runs away from the convent where his parents had him hidden and roams the countryside with an orphaned girl until they find their way to the cellar of a print shop in the Warsaw ghetto, where an old dentist has been protecting lost children.
language: English
title: Once
titlecomplete: Once
genres: Middle Grade, Historical, Historical Fiction, Childrens, School, Young Adult, War, Fiction, Holocaust, World War II
ratings_count: 24310
series: Once
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALA)
category: Fiction for years 7-9, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Preis der Jugendjury, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Katholischer Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis
publisher: Bolinda Publishing