The Silver Sword
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Product description
The night the Nazis come to take their mother away, three children escape in a terrifying scramble across the rooftops. Alone in the chaos of Warsaw, they must learn to survive on their own. Then they meet Jan – a ragged boy clutching a silver paperknife that they recognise as belonging to their long-lost father. The ‘silver sword’ becomes their symbol of hope as, with Jan, they begin a hazardous journey across war-torn Europe in search of their parents.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780099439493
Publisher
Date published
April 3rd, 2003
Lexile measure
800L
Lexiles are the global standard in reading assessment. They are unique as
they are able to measure a child and a book on the same scale – ensuring
the right book gets to the right child at the right time.
For more details see What is a lexile?.
Accelerated Reader
AR book level: 5.5; Middle years; 6.0 points
Other details
- 192 pages
Condition
New
UK edition
Emma
on 1 July 2020
A great adventure story
The Silver Sword is a fantastic story to introduce kids to the story of World War 2 refugee children. I read it aloud to my 7 year-old and we both learnt so much about the geography of the fictional Balicki family's journey from Poland to Switzerland through Germany as well the tensions of being a refugee. A story which focuses on hope, courage, loyalty and resilience and the common threads of decency and spite, good and evil, which run through all groups of people, regardless of their nationality.