The Man from the Other Side
Publisher
Puffin Books
Publication Year
1995
ISBN
9780140370881
Pages
186 pages
Genre
historical
Format
chapter book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Living on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, fourteen-year-old Marek and his grandparents shelter a Jewish man in the days before the Jewish uprising.
Grade Level
6-8, 9-12
Lexile Measure
930L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Legal guardianship; Step parent; grandparents raising grandchild; step father
Main Character
male teenager
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
multigenerational
Awards
Adventuring with Books: A Booklist for PreK-Grade 6, Tenth Edition, 1993
Best First Novels for Youth, 1991
Best of the Bunch, 1991
Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 1991
Bulletin Blue Ribbons, 1991
Children's Catalog, Eighteenth Edition, 2001
Children's Catalog, Nineteenth Edition, 2006
Horn Book Fanfare, 1991
Kirkus Book Review Stars, 1991
Notable Children's Books, 1992
Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of the Social Studies, 1991
YALSA Best Books for Youth, 1992
Young Adults' Choices, 1993
Books for You: An Annotated Booklist for Senior High, Thirteenth Edition, 1997
Read Alouds Too-Good-To-Miss, 1993
YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2002
The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, Mildred L. Batchelder Award, 1992, Winner
Keywords
Holocaust; Jewish; Judaism; grandparents; smuggling; Warsaw Ghetto; survival; Christianity
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Orlev, Uri, "The Man from the Other Side" (1995). Diverse Families. 783.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/783