I Am David (Hardcover)

from countrylife

Simultaneously a heart-rending and uplifting story about a twelve-year-old boy helped to escape from a concentration camp, with the barest of instructions on how to make his solitary way through several countries to get to Denmark. His trials and triumphs, his appreciation for the beauty around h...

from Scrappy21

This story is like a beautiful melody: a single story line, a single character, touched by a series of people and events as a boy's sense of self and freedom grows more complex. David has lived in a prison camp in Easter Europe since he was one-year-old. At 12, he is told he must escape alone, go...

from debnance

Imagine what you might be like if you had spent your entire childhood in a concentration camp. That is the main character of our story, David. And then one day, totally out of the blue, imagine a guard helps you to escape. That is our story. David knows several languages and has a deep sense of r...

from Embejo

This is a great little book aimed at younger readers. It was written for 9-13 year olds and is about a boy who escapes from a concentration camp and flees across Europe. It is well written, and while as an adult I wanted to know more about where he was and why he was imprisoned (i.e. the politics...

from bwhitner

This is the story of a young man named David who was raised in concentration camp from the age of one. When he is twelve a guard helps him to escape and tells him to go to Denmark and he will be fine. He treks across the country meeting different people, each commenting on his uniqueness. Very in...