num_pages: 160
description: Once by Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied Poland of the Second World War.Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least Once.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.Once is the first in a series of children's novels about Felix, a Jewish orphan caught in the middle of the Holocaust, from Australian author Morris Gleitzman - author of Bumface and Boy Overboard. The next books in the series Then, Now and After are also available from Puffin.
language: English
title: Once
titlecomplete: Once
genres: Historical, Middle Grade, War, School, World War II, Holocaust, Young Adult, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 24334
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: Puffin Books