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Author Serraillier, Ian.

Title The silver sword / by Ian Serrailler ; illustrated from drawings by C. Walter Hodges
Published London : Cape, 1956
London : Heinemann, 1957

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 W'PONDS CRC  JUNIOR FICTION Ser/Ssw  AVAILABLE
Description 187 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
regular print
Series Premier's Reading Challenge, 7-9
Premier's Reading Challenge, 7-9
Contents Although the silver sword was only a paper knife, it became the symbol of hope and courage which kept the four deserted children alive through the years of occupation, and afterwards on the exhausting and dangerous journey from war-torn Poland to Switzerland, where they hoped to find their parents. This extraordinarily moving account of life as it was for children during and after the Second World War is based on a true story. It has become one of the most popular books to be published in Puffin
Summary SUMMARY: A Polish family are separated during the Second World War and when the war is over the children make an astonishing journey across Europe from Poland to Switzerland to find their parents
Notes For children
Audience Children
Subject Refugees -- Poland -- Juvenile fiction.
War stories -- Juvenile fiction.
War victims -- Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Poland -- Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction, English.
SUBJECT Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010106871
Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104100 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Warsaw (Poland) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018894 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Genre/Form Fiction.
Author Hodges, C. Walter (Cyril Walter), 1909-2004.
LC no. 77200189
ISBN 0224606778