No stars at the circus

"During the round-up of Jews in Paris in July 1942, ten-year-old Jonas Alber is whisked away to the home of an elderly music professor to live in hiding. He reads about his favourite subjects - sharks, salmon, albatrosses - and writes about his family, and his friends at the circus. Increasingly he worries about his younger sister, and one day dares to step outside to find her"--Back cover. First person recount.