Anne Holm’s novel, first published in the UK in 1965, is one of the most honest and searing accounts for children of man’s inhumanity to man. It’s also one of the most hopeful.
It tells the haunting story of a 12-year-old boy who is helped to escape from a concentration camp in Eastern Europe by an otherwise hateful guard.
Convinced this is a trap to kill him, David nevertheless sets off by way of Greece, Italy, Switzerland and Germany in order to get to Denmark, where his former captor had told him he would find ultimate safety. His journey is full of incident, this is a tense and exciting story.
Brought up in the camp, David knows nothing of the outside world, but he knows who he is. No matter what happens, he has decided he will not give in to men who love violence and he won’t let them change him. Holm felt that children need ‘real, valuable literature’ and I Am David is a masterpiece.
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The story of a young boy's journey through Europe after escaping from the camp where he had lived all his life. Sea, mountains and flowers, the colours of Italy, the taste of fruit, people laughing and smiling, all are new to David. And David learns that his polite manner, his haunted eyes and his thin features are strange to other people.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed I Am David and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
I Am David features in the following genres: Warfare & Battles, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Featured Books for 9+ readers, Recommendations, Featured Books for 11+ readers, History
I Am David is available in Paperback, Hardback
I Am David was written by Anne Holm and published by Farshore an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
I Am David has 195 pages
Yes it is part of HarperCollins Children's Classics series
£7.19
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