I Am David - Anne Holm

I Am David - Advantages: It is a very informative, Tells you the harsh reality - Disadvantages: A bit boring near the middle

David is twelve years old. All his life he has lived in a concentration camp in Eastern Europe. It is a terrible place. David has been there since he was a baby and he knows nothing of the outside world except those things his one good friend and mentor, Johannes, now dead, has told him. He has no story, no memories to hold on to, he doesn't even know who his parents are, whether they are alive or dead, what his religion is, or even what country he comes from. It is not even clear whether the camp is a Nazi one, or a post-war Russian one. He knows only one thing: that he is David. It is not much to build a life on, is it? But it's all he has. And on the day ...