A ten year old boy named Felix is living in an orphanage in Poland in 1942., Felix finds a carrot in his soup and thinks it is a sign that his parents are coming back to get him., The Nazis come to the orphanage to burn the books in the library, Felix decides to leave the orphanage. He wants to hide the books in his parents’ bookshop so that the Nazis don't burn them, A few days after he begins his journey, Felix finds an empty house with plates of potato stew on the kitchen table. He imagines that the inhabitants of the house left to go hunting rabbits., He leaves the house and as he continues his journey he spots a truck crammed with people. He imagines that they must be farm workers going on holiday , He shouts to the soldiers on the truck if he can ride with them but they shoot at him. He assumes it was unintentional, Felix reaches his home town. He discovers that the Radzyn family are living in his home., Felix heads for the city. He reaches a house. There are two dead bodies outside, surrounded by dead chickens., At the house he meets a six year old girl named Zelda and she goes on the journey with him, On their way to the city they meet a group of exhausted looking men, women and children wearing The Star of David, When they reach the city, the residents start shouting insults at the Jews. The children are separated from the adults and a man is shot dead by a Nazi soldier, When Felix and Zelda arrive in the city they are taken into hiding by a dentist named Barney, Barney brings Felix with him to give dental treatment to Nazi soldiers. Felix tells stories to the soldiers in order to distract them from their pain., Felix tells Zelda the truth of what he knows about what happened to her parents. However Felix continues to believe that his parents are still alive..

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