Malka by Mirjam Pressler

POLAND, 1943

Malka's world is changing. Jews are no longer welcome in her home town and her family is threatened by Nazi round-ups. Nothing is safe any more.

Now Malka's mother knows she has no choice -- she must take her daughters across the mountains to freedom. But escape proves harder than they could ever have imagined.

Separated from her mother and alone in a terrifying new world, Malka struggles to survive starvation and brutality at the hands of the Nazis. But she is unaware that, miles away, a broken-hearted mother is searching for her lost little girl . . .

The extraordinary, shocking story of a child's fight to stay alive during one of the bleakest moments of human history.