Name: After
ISBN: 9780670075447

Morris Gleitzman

After the Nazis took my parents I was scared After they killed my best friend I was angry After they ruined my thirteenth birthday I was determined To get to the forest To join forces with Gabriek and Yuli To be a family To defeat the Nazis after all

After

Amanda Kordeliski

This book is the heart-wrenching conclusion to Felix's story. Set two years and two months after the horrifying tragedy at the end of Then, After follows Felix in the final year of the war as he becomes a part of the resistance and discovers he has surgeon's hand and a doctors instinct. An excellent end to the quartet of stories. I read the books in the order Mr. Gleitzman wrote them but I think they have more resonance and impact when read Once, Then, After, Now. I need to reread Now to better understand some of the anger and grief Felix was experiencing as an old man. 

After all Felix has seen and done, After surviving this long, After making his way across Poland and Germany, he has become a man. His childhood was war and death camps and resistance camps and hidey holes under horse stalls. Felix is a man and realizes grown up decisions are even harder to make that the impossible choices he already was making.

I feel this set of novels relate to middle school kids more than any other holocaust book in my library. They identify with Felix, Zelda, Barney, Gabriek, and all the others who try to help Felix survive the war. superbly written.

"Sometimes you don't actually have to live in a hole to feel like you are in a dark and lonely place (142)

Highly Recommend

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Abbie Ray

After is the fourth shocking, funny and heartbreaking book in Morris Gleitzman's Second World War series.After The Nazis took my parents I was scaredAfterThey killed my best friend I was angryAfterThey ruined my thirteenth birthday I was determined to get to the forest, to join forces with Gabriek and Yuli, to be a family, to defeat the Nazis after all'Haunting . . . dangerous and desperate, but also full of courage and hope' - Guardian'You will laugh . . . prepare for shock and tears' - Sunday TimesAfter is the fourth in a series of children's novels about Felix, a Jewish orphan caught in the middle of the Holocaust, from Australian author Morris Gleitzman - author of Bumface and Two Weeks with the Queen. The other books in the series, Once, Then and Now are also available from Puffin.