The Island on Bird Street is a 1981 semi-autobiographical children's novel by Israeli writer Uri Orlev. Set during the Second World War, it follows a young Jewish boy named Alex who is left to survive alone in an abandoned building within a Nazi occupied ghetto, drawing on the author's own childhood experience. Orlev received the 1996 Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's literature largely on the strength of this novel, which has since been translated into English and other languages and is widely used in Holocaust education curricula. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Island on Bird Street is a 1981 semi-autobiographical children's novel by Israeli writer Uri Orlev.
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The Island on Bird Street (Hebrew: האי ברחוב הציפורים; The Island on Birds Street) is a 1981 semi-autobiographical children's book by Israeli author Uri Orlev (אורי אורלב), which tells the story of a young boy, Alex, and his struggle to survive alone in a ghetto during World War II.
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The Island on Bird Street is a 1981 semi-autobiographical children's novel by Israeli writer Uri Orlev.
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The Island on Bird Street (Hebrew: האי ברחוב הציפורים; The Island on Birds Street) is a 1981 semi-autobiographical children's book by Israeli author Uri Orlev (אורי אורלב), which tells the story of a young boy, Alex, and his struggle to survive alone in a ghetto during World War II.
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