But Can the Phoenix Sing?

New York: Greenwillow Books, 1995. A beautiful copy. Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (15.00). No chips or tears. Sequel to Shadow of the Wall (which received the Janusz Korczak Award for best children's book of 1990). Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Richard discovers the incredible details of [Misha Edelman] his stern and remote stepfather's hidden past when he is left a manuscript to read..." From the Dust Jacket: "A compelling story of unrelenting courage in Nazi-occupied Poland." From Booklist: Grade 7-10. "Thrilling action and complex moral issues combine in a Holocaust survivor story... Misha Edelman, now settled in England, remembers his teenage experience after he escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto: first he was a partisan fighter in the Polish forest in 1942; then he returned to Warsaw as an underground courier for the resistance; he spent several months as a prisoner of the Germans (always hiding his Jewish identity); finally he came to England. Misha tells his story in a long letter to his stepson, Richard, and Richard's occasional notes to his girlfriend add a contemporary commentary..." . First Printing of the First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. Illus. by McKendry, Kenny (jacket art). 8vo. 230pp.