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Fourteen-year-old Alexander Altmann doesn't need to look at the number tattooed on his arm. A10567: he knows it by heart. He also knows that to survive Auschwitz, he has to toughen up. When he is given the job of breaking in the commander's new horse, their survival becomes intertwined. Alexander knows the animal is scared and damaged, but he must win its trust. If he fails, they will both be killed. Alexander Altmann A10567 is a confronting junior fiction novel by award-winning Australian author Suzy Zail. This powerful story of hope, adversity and redemption is set against the historical backdrop of the Holocaust. Suzy's first book for young adults, The Wrong Boy, was short-listed for the 2013 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards. "A confronting but gripping novel ... a powerful story of hope, adversity and redemption." Junior Books+Publishing
Fourteen-year-old Alexander Altmann doesn't need to look at the number tattooed on his arm. A10567: he knows it by heart. He also knows that to survive Auschwitz, he has to toughen up. When he is given the job of breaking in the commander's new horse, their survival becomes intertwined. Alexander knows the animal is scared and damaged, but he must win its trust. If he fails, they will both be killed. Alexander Altmann A10567 is a confronting junior fiction novel by award-winning Australian author Suzy Zail. This powerful story of hope, adversity and redemption is set against the historical backdrop of the Holocaust. Suzy's first book for young adults, The Wrong Boy, was short-listed for the 2013 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards. "A confronting but gripping novel ... a powerful story of hope, adversity and redemption." Junior Books+Publishing
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About the Author-
Suzy Zail has worked as a litigation lawyer, specialising in Family Law, but now writes full time. Among other titles, she has written her father's story, The Tattooed Flower, his life as a child survivor of the Holocaust. Her first novel for young adults, The Wrong Boy, was shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards, the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, the WAYRBA, USBBY and YABBA awards. Her second novel with Walker Books, Alexander Altmann A10567, was a Notable Book at the CBCA Awards. Her latest YA novel, I Am Change, is the story of a young Ugandan girl's struggle to stay in school. In 2022 Suzy published her first picture book, Arabella's Alphabet Adventure. Suzy's books have been published in Germany, the UK, U.S., Sweden, Italy, Romania and the Netherlands. She lives in Melbourne and has three children. Visit her online at suzyzail.com.au and @suzyzailauthor
Reviews-
February 3, 2014 Aleksander Altmann is 14 years old and hasn’t heard his name called in six weeks—he’s now known as A10567, the prisoner number branded on his arm. A Jewish boy imprisoned in a concentration camp during World War II, Aleksander has learned to shut off his emotions to cope with his situation and the loss of his beloved family and horse. But things take a surprising turn when Aleksander is chosen to work as a stable boy and tend to the SS officers’ horses. He’s given a particularly difficult beast, Midnight, to tame and make fit for the SS commander to ride. The survival of boy and horse become entwined as both must learn to trust again, and Alexsander’s life hangs in the balance if he fails. This is a confronting but gripping novel from Australian author Suzy Zail, whose father was a child survivor of the Holocaust, and whose first novel for young adults, The Wrong Boy, was shortlisted for the 2013 Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year award for older readers. Zail creates a vivid sense of time and place in Aleksander Altmann. It’s a powerful story of hope, adversity and redemption.
Carody Culver is a freelance writer and editor and a part-time bookseller at Brisbane’s Avid Reader and Black Cat Books
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A confronting but gripping novel ... a powerful story of hope, adversity and redemption.
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