Status
Available
Call number
Description
After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.
Collection
Publication
Puffin Books (1999), Edition: Reprint, 209 pages
Awards
Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Nominee — 2000)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Middle Grade — 2000)
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee — 2000)
Sydney Taylor Book Award (Winner — 1998)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
Golden Kite Award (Winner — Fiction — 1998)
South Dakota Teen Choice Book Awards (Nominee — 1998)
Maud Hart Lovelace Award (Nominee — 2002)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 1998)
Read Aloud Indiana Book Award (High School — 1999)
Notable Children's Book (1998)
Language
Original publication date
1997
Physical description
209 p.; 5.06 inches
ISBN
0141306009 / 9780141306001