傑裏•史賓尼利（Jerry Spinelli），美國著名作傢。作品包括獲1991年紐伯瑞金奬的《馬尼西亞傳奇》（Maniac Magee）、獲1998年紐伯瑞銀奬的《小殺手》（Wringer），以及《失敗者》（Loser）、《碰撞》（Crash）和自傳體小說《悠悠繩扣》（Knots in My Yo-yo String）等。他的小說既有趣又耐人尋味，深受讀者喜愛，本本都被美國教育界和文學評論界推薦。他目前與傢人一起居住於賓夕法尼亞州。

A stunning novel of the Holocaust from a Newbery Medalist

He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Filthy son of Abraham.

He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself, and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels.

He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi, with tall, shiny jackboots of his own-until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind.

And when the trains come to empty the Jews from the ghetto of the damned, he's a boy who realizes it's safest of all to be nobody.

Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli takes us to one of the most devastating settings imaginable-Nazi-occupied Warsaw during World War II-and tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through the bright eyes of a young Holocaust orphan.