The Silver SWord
Summary
It took Joseph Balicki four weeks to escape from a camp where he was captured by the Nazis to work at. When he came back to his hometown in Poland he found nothing... The city was a rubble... He couldn't even find his wife, Margrit and his three children, Ruth, Edek and Bronia. Margrit was captured when the Nazis came and bombed their house. But the three children survived. From Poland they will have to go on a long, dangerous and adventurous journey through war-torn Europe to find their parents.
Book Review
It was a really good and fun book to read. At first I thought it was going to be a serious and quite dramatic but it wasn't, it included many adventurous and funny things. I think this book is great for all ages, even old people because there's nothing too serious that kids won't understand or something too childish that an adult won't like. Another reason that you should read this book is because there's a moral in it which is: never give up for something really important.
Characters
Joseph Balicki
He is the three children's father and Margrit's wife. He's a very clever man and he would do anything to find his family. He's a works as a headmaster in a primary school in Warsaw. One day he was captured by the Nazis and sent to a camp to work at. After that, he didn't see his family again for years.
Margrit Balicki
She is the three children's mother and Joseph's wife. She's a very caring person. She was captured by the Nazis stormtrooper on the night they came to their house.
Ruth
She is the eldest of all the three children (aged 12). She's a very caring person like her mother, and can act like a mom to his siblings or even someone who helped her. She was the leader of all the three children, taking care of them during their journey. She, with the other three children, escaped the rooftop of her house when the Nazis came.
Edek
A boy aged 11. He's a really clever boy, helping there siblings through the dangerous parts of Europe and finding food and clothes for them. During their journey, when Edek was out finding food and clothes for them, he was captured by the Nazis and sent to a prison camp in a city called Posen. So, not only just finding their parents, the rest will also have to find Edek.
Jan
An orphan that Joseph found on the streets and gave his silver sword to. He's quite harsh and violent but he really love animals, he once had a cock named Jimpy, that he really loved. He was later found by the three children and was adopted by Ruth. They also later found out that he had the silver sword, and that was what that lead them to their Dad.
It took Joseph Balicki four weeks to escape from a camp where he was captured by the Nazis to work at. When he came back to his hometown in Poland he found nothing... The city was a rubble... He couldn't even find his wife, Margrit and his three children, Ruth, Edek and Bronia. Margrit was captured when the Nazis came and bombed their house. But the three children survived. From Poland they will have to go on a long, dangerous and adventurous journey through war-torn Europe to find their parents.
Book Review
It was a really good and fun book to read. At first I thought it was going to be a serious and quite dramatic but it wasn't, it included many adventurous and funny things. I think this book is great for all ages, even old people because there's nothing too serious that kids won't understand or something too childish that an adult won't like. Another reason that you should read this book is because there's a moral in it which is: never give up for something really important.
Characters
Joseph Balicki
He is the three children's father and Margrit's wife. He's a very clever man and he would do anything to find his family. He's a works as a headmaster in a primary school in Warsaw. One day he was captured by the Nazis and sent to a camp to work at. After that, he didn't see his family again for years.
Margrit Balicki
She is the three children's mother and Joseph's wife. She's a very caring person. She was captured by the Nazis stormtrooper on the night they came to their house.
Ruth
She is the eldest of all the three children (aged 12). She's a very caring person like her mother, and can act like a mom to his siblings or even someone who helped her. She was the leader of all the three children, taking care of them during their journey. She, with the other three children, escaped the rooftop of her house when the Nazis came.
Edek
A boy aged 11. He's a really clever boy, helping there siblings through the dangerous parts of Europe and finding food and clothes for them. During their journey, when Edek was out finding food and clothes for them, he was captured by the Nazis and sent to a prison camp in a city called Posen. So, not only just finding their parents, the rest will also have to find Edek.
Jan
An orphan that Joseph found on the streets and gave his silver sword to. He's quite harsh and violent but he really love animals, he once had a cock named Jimpy, that he really loved. He was later found by the three children and was adopted by Ruth. They also later found out that he had the silver sword, and that was what that lead them to their Dad.