Once by Morris Gleitzman

The book 'Once' is all about a boy called Felix and a girl called Zelda. Felix is a young boy who lives in an orphanidge  in Poland. He decides that he has to go and find his parents. So one morning runs away from the orphanidge. On his way to find his parents he encounters a house on fire. He walks up to it and finds a man and women lying dead on the floor in a puddle of blood. He then  goes closer and finds a young girl lying on the floor. He takes a feather and puts it above her mouth to check if shes breathing.......she is.He picks her up and carry's her for hours. Felix is so tired by this point and needs to rest somewhere. The next morning they wake up and on the passing road there are hundreds of people wearing jewish armbands. After Felix has finished admiring the road he turns around and there is Zelda with a Nazi soldier pointing a gun at her head. Felix and Zelda joined the crowd and continued the walk to the city. When they reached the city there were children being loaded onto trucks and being taken away but just at the right moment and old man came and stopped the nazi soldier from taking Felix and Zelda. But when the old man takes them and hides them in the city will they stay hidden or will they get found and taken away.....? I think this is a very exciting book and always keeps you on your toes. It makes you very curious at what will happen next. I would give this book a 9/10. F.A.