This beau­ti­ful book, orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished in 1988, has been new­ly updat­ed and revised. None of the com­pelling style of the orig­i­nal edi­tion has been lost. On the sur­face, this is a sto­ry of a spe­cial rela­tion­ship between a 12-year old boy that loves bas­ket­ball and his grand­fa­ther, Max. The two share many expe­ri­ences togeth­er. In real­i­ty, it is also an oppor­tu­ni­ty, through Max and David’s shared expe­ri­ences, to make the Holo­caust real and to cre­ate real peo­ple liv­ing rich and full lives pri­or to the com­ing of the Nazis. On a vaca­tion to coastal Mass­a­chu­setts, Max thinks he has seen an old friend who he thought had been killed dur­ing World War Two. David is the only one who believes that Max may be cor­rect, and attempts to help him find this friend, whose art is exhib­it­ed in a local gallery. While they are attempt­ing to locate his grandfather’s old friend, David begins to learn about the Holo­caust and about his grandfather’s back­ground for the first time. This book is replete with won­der­ful val­ues of friend­ship and fam­i­ly and hon­esty, and serves as an intro­duc­tion for pre­teens to this hor­rif­ic peri­od in Jew­ish his­to­ry. The revised edi­tion has sev­er­al updates, which suc­ceed in mak­ing the sto­ry more appeal­ing to con­tem­po­rary read­ers. For instance, David has seen the doc­u­men­tary, Paper Clips, which had not been cre­at­ed twen­ty years ago. High­ly rec­om­mend­ed for ages 10 – 13.