Alki Zei - Rights Guide

13 R I G H T S G U I D E A L K I Z E I 12+ Petros’ War 320 pages | 14x20.5cm • 1974 MILDRED BATCHELDER AWARD (USA) TRANSLATED INTO 12 LANGUAGES. RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD. Nine-year-old Petros is very sad because his cricket is dead. He’d like to bury it, but he won’t have time: The next morning his mother abruptly wakes him up: “Can’t you hear the sirens?”. It is 28th of October 1940 and Greece has just entered World War II. Petros knows about war from his books. He is thrilled by heroes, shields, swords and victories. How is war like in reality? Petros lives the war, occupation and resistance together with his parents, his sister, his grandfather and his turtle, Theodore. We follow him on his long walk through all the real adventures that take place between October 1940 and October 1944, when Greece was liberated. One of Alki Zei’s most poignant novels about war and hope, it has been translated into 12 languages. ENGLISH TEXT AVAILABLE. “Local colour is not obtrusive; indeed, except for a few references to peculiar Greek festivals and foods, the scene might be any city of occupied Europe. It is a book well worth having on school and public library shelves and deserves wide readership in the 10 to 13 age range.” - Michael Thomas, The Times Educational Supplement