The Greatest Skating Race : : a World War II Story From the Netherlands
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Youth level.
During World War II in the Netherlands, a ten-year-old boy's dream of skating in a famous race allows him to help two children escape to Belgium by ice skating past German soldiers and other enemies.
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Cool informative book submitted by EllieN-W on August 30, 2015, 11:22pm My 8 year old and I both liked this book. Tells a part of WW2 history that I did not know about. Also, about a long ice skating race in the Netherlands that I had never heard of and that sounds cool.
PUBLISHED
New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 44 p. : col. ill., map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 750
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0689845022
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Daly, Niki.
SUBJECTS
World War, 1939-1945 -- Netherlands -- Fiction.
Escapes -- Fiction.
Ice skating -- Fiction.
Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction.