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Felix jumps with Chaya and Zelda holding his hand. When they land on the grass he finds Chaya dead from a gunshot. He and Zelda now have each other’s to escape to a better life

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The train journey is terrible. It is so crowded and every passenger squashes each other. Barney encourages the children to do a lice hunt as a way of distracting them. The people are becoming agitated and there are no toilet facilities. The people are like animals as they have to go to the bathroom in the corner of the train cart. Felix has the bright idea of using his note pad as toilet paper to lessen the humiliation felt by the elderly passengers. When he places the notebook on a bolt it gives way and the passengers realise that the wood is weak. Many of them push and break a hole in the side of the train cart. Some of them jump out but Nazi soldiers are on top of the trains shooting any escapees. However some get free and run into woods. Felix wants to risk it and Barney doesn’t agree he thinks it’s too risky with so many young children. Barney hugs Felix and feels the syringes in his coat pocket. He realises that Barney won’t let them suffer. He will use his medicine to put them to sleep. Zelda, Felix and Chaka decide to jump.

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The Nazis force Barney and the children to walk through the ghetto at gunpoint. The kids all gather round Barney and look to him for reassurance and comfort. The Nazis are so cold hearted and cruel that they wouldn’t even let Jacob bring his teddy bear with him. They are being taken to the railway station. Felix is carrying Zelda on his back as she is still so sick that she cannot walk. Felix is worried about Zelda because they have not been able to give her the aspirin yet.
Barney tries to keep everyone’s spirits up by telling them they are going on an outing and he makes them all hold up their toothbrushes. But Felix knows that there is a chance that the Nazis will kill them soon. He gives Zelda a kiss to try and keep her calm. Felix thinks to himself that the Nazis are marching them along to make any Jew who see them feel hopeless. He decides to walk tall and not look hopeless. He won’t let the Nazis steal his hope and courage from him. And he suddenly has an idea that he thinks will save Zelda’s life. He makes Zelda take her locket back even though she diesnt want to at first because she gave it to Felix as a gift.
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After his traumatic experience in the apartment, where he saw the dead two year old and was told by Barney about the death camps, Felix doesn’t want to tell or hear stories ever again. While Barney tells the others a story Felix buries his head into his sack bed and tries to block it out. He thinks stories are “stupid” and he ignores Zelda when she speaks to him. He thinks to himself that he wants to be like the cold and bored Nazi who he saw murdering people. He doesn’t want to care about anyone ever again. He is numb with pain, shock and anger.
Zelda asks Felix if his parents are dead as well and when he wont answer she pushes her heart necklace into his hand and says that she hopes it will help him to feel better. When she holds his hand Felix realises that her hand is very hot and even though he wants to ignore her he sits up to see if she is alright. He can see that she is pale and when he feels her cheek she is burning up. Zelda tells him that she has a temperature before collapsing to the ground.

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Felix tries to comfort Zelda after he has told her what he saw at the house and that her parents were dead. Barney brings Felix a pair of boots and tells him that he wants Felix to have them because they are going to go into the ghetto to get water and he might need to run. When Felix looks at the old shoes that Barney is wearing that are barely held together by Twine. Barney tells Felix the truth. Barney says that he feels sorry for Felix and that he deserves something good in his life at least once. Felix does not understand why Barney feels sorry for him for two reasons. Firstly Felix is a hopeful and resilient charecter who usually tries to look on the bright side of life and stay positive and secondly he still thinks his parents are alive and that he is luckier than all the orphans in the cellar

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Felix tells us that he is angry with Barney because he stopped Felix from asking the Nazi officer about his parents. Felix felt that the officer enjoyed his story because he made Felix continue the story even after Barney had finished drilling his tooth. The officer even asked Felix to write down the story so that he could sent it to his children back in Germany. Felix still wants to believe in the goodness of others, and he thought that this officer would want to help his parents if he found out they were in trouble. However Barney stopped him from asking and told him it was too dangerous. Zelda is disappointed when Felix shakes his head but then tells Felix that she and the others have found a way to see all their parents. The kids have started making a pile of the sack beds on the floor so they can stand on them and look up through the cracks in the ceiling.

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Felix surprises Barney as he walks up the stairs in the middle of the night. He says he needs to come up with him.Upstairs in the  cellar are printing presses the Jewish community used to print books before the nazis took over. Felix tells Barney that he needs to find his parents because of his rare illness. Barney does not buy felix’s lie. However instead of sending Felix downstairs, Barney asks him for help.

Because they are violating the Ghetto’s curfew, they must be careful, if they are caught by soldiers, they will be executed on the spot. Barney explains that they will be fine because of what he carries in his bag. Barney tells Felix that he may not be able to find his parents. Felix thinks that he is wrong but says nothing. He asks if all Jews brought to the city are sent to this ghetto. Barney does not reply. In a crowded apartment, Felix watches Barney unpack his bag in front of a man groaning on a bed. Felix realises that Barney is a dentist. Barney orders him to tell the patient a story to distract him from the pain. The next patient they visit is a Nazi Officer.

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Felix was living in a cellar with seven other kids, when he should be out looking for his mum and dad. Felix wakes up Zelda to tell him a story as Barney banned him from telling stories because there were too many arguments. When Felix was sick Barney let him pee in a bottle but he must’ve taken it, He then finds a bucket that is half full but still pees in it. As Felix finishes he looks around the cellar looking for Barney and the others, but he doesn’t seem to find them. He then finds out that Barney is out getting him and the others food. Nazis are shooting people out in the Nazi City. The kids are avoiding being thrown at the back of the truck by hiding and keeping quiet. The kids have to keep quiet because all the other Jewish kids have been taken away and the only ones left are the ones hiding. They sit on the floor while Zelda tells them a story, While Zelda tells the story Felix thinks about another one about why he had to stay at the orphanage. Felix tries to think of a story to the tell them, so that they can take their minds off their worries. He then tells a story about a boy named William who wakes up in his castle and finds a carrot in his soup.

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Felix is in tears because the adults cannot protect the kids from the Nazis. Felix looks up and sees a man that has his hand on Zelda’s shoulder and is talking with a Nazi Soldier in a different language. The man let’s go of Zelda’s hair and points it at the man’s head, he lifts up a leather bag and holds it in front of the Nazi officer. The Nazi solider raises his other hand and twists the mans beard with his glove. The Nazi Soldier goes over to a crowd of Jewish people who are crying because there children are being put into a truck. Felix tries to stop a man who wanted to shoot a women, it was already too late as she had being shot dead. The man who the Nazi soldier twisted his beard looks at Felix. As Felix wakes up he sees a light flickering in his eyes, until he notices that it is a candle flame. Felix starts to think that he is back in the orphanage because Mother Minka always has a candle flame at night, then he starts to think he is back in the orphanage. Felix tries to warn the people that he needs to find his mum and dad and shouldn’t be at the orphanage. A man looks down at Felix frowning, then he starts to think it is Father Ludwik. Then he remembers that it was the one with the bag. Felix is panicked as he has lost his notebook, and his throat still hurts. Felix is mad that the Nazis have got his mum and dad and that they put him in an orphanage, were he could’ve saved them.

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Felix was reading stories to Zelda as they trudge through the rain towards the city, Felix and Zelda are both hungry as they finished their bread. While Felix walks he is on the lookout for food. While Felix is walking he sees a crowd of Jewish people that are now walking with them. Felix talks about a gorilla that has escaped across Poland. The zookeepers make up a plan to capture the Gorilla, they plan to get a luxury hotel room and put Bananas, Coconuts. The zookeepers plan to hide in the wardrobe and then capture him whenever he comes in. Suddenly a man started yelling at a soldier then the soldier hits him with his gun. Felix doesn’t want Zelda to know that the man was killed so he puts his arm around her and walks as fast as he can. The zookeepers have another plan which is to dig a hole so the gorilla falls in to it. Felix sees a big crowd of people who are digging a hole and Soldiers are pointing a gun at them. As Felix is in the city he sees Tall buildings that are five levels high, soldiers telling jokes to each other in a different language. Felix and Zelda have a look around for their parents, but they cannot find them. The Soldiers give Jewish people a bucket to scrub the cobblestones. Now they are grabbing Jewish kids and throwing them into the back of a truck. The Soldiers are separating kids from the adults, Felix is worried as he still needs to find his mum and dad. Felix grabs Zelda to the other side of the street, as they try to run. The local people yell at the soldiers saying they’re jews and escaping.

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Felix wakes at home in his bed. His dad was reading him a story about a boy who got left in an orphanage. His parents had promised him not leave him anywhere, He then realises he woke up in a haystack. A young girl walks up to Felix and starts shaking him and complaining, he puts on his glasses and remembers that it was Zelda with the dead parents. Felix gives Zelda. Felix offers Zelda bread and water where he takes very little of his share. Felix leaves Zelda as he goes to see what is going on, he hears voices and footsteps from the other side of the hedge. The people he sees are carrying bags, suitcases, cooking pots and books. Everyone of them are wearing armbands. Felix jumps back into the hedge as he hears a sudden noise. In the distance he sees Several soldiers on bikes driving up and down, waving and yelling in a different language. The Soldiers on the bikes are Nazis and the Jewish book owners are all being transported to the city. As Felix leans through the bush he hears a Zelda screaming with fear, next to her is a Nazi Solider pointing a gun at her. Felix runs over to the nazi Solider as he tries to get him to not shoot zelda, as he runs over to the Solider he then points his gun at Felix. Felix is disappointed so he cheers himself up by thinking his mum and dad have already arrived at the city

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On the way to the city, Felix sees a huge fire in the distance, he thinks this is were the nazis are burning the Jewish books. Until he realises that it’s not books that is being burned it is a house. He pees on his hat to keep his head from blistering. The lawn is full of dead chickens. The owners are lying dead as well, They’ve been shot. Felix picks up a chicken feather and holds it in front of the women’s mouth and nose to see if she is actually dead. Felix begins to cry. He thinks the people are Jewish book owners who refused to give their book. Part of the house collapses behind Felix. Felix rolls to put out his smouldering clothes. He nearly rolls into a dead little girl. He begins to wonder if Jews aren’t being bullied just because of books. He notices that the girl isent bleeding, but has a big bruise on her forehead. Felix grabs a feather and holds it in front of her face. In the distance Felix sees two black cars, he thinks they are the cars that came to the orphanage. He thinks that the nazis are coming back to get rid of their evidence

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Felix made it back to his house and remembers that the street is different to how it used to be. It is not as busy anymore. Everything is the same from the shop, the peeling green paint, the metal post for customers to lean their bikes on. When Felix arrives at the bookshop he sees no books, just old coats, hats, and underwear. Felix thinks that the nazis might’ve burned the books or the lock has been broken. Mom and dad love books, they are not interested in clothes. Felix hears voices coming from his flat over the shop. A man and a women, he thinks it might be mom and dad. Of course it has been 3 years and 8 months I am going to look different to them

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Once Felix escaped from an orphanage in the mountains, dig a tunnel, disguise yourself as a priest. He slides down the mountainside through the cool green forest feeling grateful to God, Jesus, the Virgin Mary, the pope, and Adolf hitler. The nazis left this morning, the nuns didn’t lock the gate. One day Mother Minka took him out on an excursion to look for blackberries, Dodie got tangled in thorns. Felix thinks he should go to the shop and hide the books and find a train ticket receipt which tells where his mom and dad are. Felix doesn’t like the orphanage shoes, he needs to get proper ones that aren’t made of wood and proper clothes and directions to the river

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Felix seen a customer damaging books In his mom and dad’s bookshop. His mum was crying and his dad was furious and so was Felix. Felix mum and dad all love books even old ones. A Voice suddenly shouts at Felix in a different language. The Nazis are going around burning Jewish books. When Felix’s parents sent the carrot they diden’t say when they were actually going to be here

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Felix worries whether his parents will recognise him after 3 years and 8 months. He is much taller and wears glasses now. He remembers his mum telling him that he won’t be forgotten after they have fixed their bookshop troubles. His dad said to him that even though he has changed they will still know it’s him. A car rolls into the courtyard, Felix thinks that it is mom and dad. He gets so excited that he rubs his glasses with his pyjama sleeve. The car has more than two people inside so Felix thinks that his mom and dad might’ve given someone a lift.

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A boy named Felix is in an orphanage in 1942, his parents Jewish booksellers, put him there when the nazis make things difficult for buisness owners, Mother Minka was a customer of theirs. One Mealtime he finds a carrot in his dinner bowl, he takes it as a sign that his mom and dad are coming to take him home. Felix lies to Mother Minka saying that dodie wants to be a doctor and being really hygienic and sends felix to the back of the queue.