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The Island on Bird Street Review

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Uri Orlev
Who wrote the Island on Bird Street?
Alex
Who is the protagonist?
Jewish/Polish
What is Alex's nationality?
Warsaw, Poland
Where does the story take place?
Historical Fiction
What is the genre of this book?
1st point of view
The story is told in what point of view?
Rope Factory
What type of factory does Alex's father work at?
Gryns
What is the name of the family that Alex shares an apartment with?
Boruch
What is the name of Alex's "grandfather"?
Father, Boruch
Name two of Alex's teachers
water, bread, flashlight
Name three items that were in Alex's backpack?
78
What is the number of the house that Alex is hiding in on Bird Street?
Tattletale
What is a rat?
Thousands of birds on the trees of the street
How did Bird Street get its name?
Tssipora, Avrom, Yossi
Who are the children in the Gryns' family?
Martha
9 year old girl; she stole food from Alex with her parents
Stashya
Alex's girlfriend; lives outside the ghetto
Yanek
A bully who lives outside the ghetto
Aunt Kristina
Yanek's aunt
Dr. Stanislaw Polawski
A doctor who helps Henryk with his bullet wound; Lives in the same building as Stashya
Jewish
What is Stashya's nationality?
Helinka
The doctor's wife?
Bolek
A doorman who is a member of the Polish underground; helps Alex
Freddy
Jew that tries to join the ghetto uprising; hides with Alex
Henryk
Jew that tries to join the ghetto uprising; hides with Alex; Has a wounded arm and doctor treats it
Snow
Alex's pet mouse
32 Bakers Street
location of the secret passage out of the ghetto
Visit friend from another ghetto and never returned
What happened to Alex's mother?
Fire a gun
What does Alex's father teach him to do during their nights together in the ghetto?
Knife
What does Boruch keep in his shoe?
Boruch afraid of mice
Why didn't Alex ever take Snow with him when he stayed with Boruch in the storeroom?
Ceiling hideout/underground bunker
Where does Alex hide all day while his father is working at the factory?
Palestine
Where did Alex's mother want to move to before the war started?
Under piles of rope
Where did Boruch, Alex, and his father hide when the Germans raided the factory?
Pliers
What did the policeman see Alex's father slip into his pocket?
Gun
What did Alex's father give to Boruch so the Germans wouldn't find it?
Cellar in house 78 Bird Street
Where did Boruch tell Alex to hide when he ran from the Germans?
bombing
What had caused the damage to the house at 78 Bird Street?
War, Hide and seek
What games did children play at 78 Bird Street?
Water dripping from pipes
Why did all the birds land on the 4th floor of the ruined house?
C
Which ghetto did Alex's family live in?
Factory worker no longer allowed to have children
Why did Alex's parents decide to make a bunker and hide him?
To get Snow
Why did Alex want to go back to his house after his first night alone?
Gryn family took it
What happened to the food Alex's father had hidden in their house?
Evaporated milk, jam, crackers
What food did the Gryns finally agree to share with Alex?
Wait for his father at 78 Bird Street
Why did Alex decide not to stay in the bunker with the Gryn family?
Candle, food
What does Alex decide are the two most important things he needs to look for in the empty houses?
Snow found food hidden in ghetto
How was Snow able to help Alex?
Another family found him eating it and took it from him
What happened to the food Snow found for Alex?
He followed the family
How did Alex get Martha's father to give him some of the food?
Fired gun at the man
How did Alex rescue Martha?
Box of jewels
What did two looters get into a deadly fight over?
Wood, Rope
What materials did Alex use to make his ladder?
3rd
What floor was Alex's hideout in?
larder
What was the name of the place where Alex stored his supplies and slept?
Electric wires
What did Alex decide to use to pull his ladder up and down?
people hiding in bunker under the cellar floor
Why did the police come and dig the cellar shortly after Alex moved his hiding place?
carrots
Which food that he hadn't eaten in a long time did Alex find in the bunker?
flush toilet,take a shower
What was Alex able to do in the bunker before the Germans blew it up?
Watching people
Besides reading how else did Alex pass the time?
uniform, gun
What did Freddy steal from the dead German soldier?
Checkers
What game did Henryk and Alex play to pass the time while Henryk recovered?
Gestapo came and took him away
What happened to the doctor?
3 weeks
How long was Henryk sick?
Money
What did the doorman at the house wit the secret passage want from Alex?
Soccer
What game did Alex join in and play with the boys from the outside the ghetto?
New Year's Eve
When did Bolek bring Alex a package of goodies?
Pipes froze in cold weather
Why did Alex's water supply run out?
Kerosene
What important item did Alex fear he would run out of?
5 months
How long was Alex hiding before his father came?
Wlodek
Alex's friend outside the ghetto
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