No stars at the circus
By: Mary Finn
Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781406347333; 9781406355024; 9781406355031
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Fiction; Young adult fiction; World war, 1939-1945; Jews
Description: "During the round-up of Jews in Paris in July 1942, ten-year-old Jonas Alber is whisked away to the home of an elderly music professor to live in hiding. He reads about his favourite subjects - sharks, salmon, albatrosses - and writes about his family, and his friends at the circus. Increasingly he worries about his younger sister, and one day dares to step outside to find her"--Back cover. First person recount.