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The boy who Dared

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Book - 2008 Teen Book / Fiction / Historical / Bartoletti, Susan Campbell 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.3 out of 5

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Call Number: Teen Book / Fiction / Historical / Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
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In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.

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Boy Who Dared submitted by Brad B. on December 6, 2010, 12:43pm This book opens on a boy's execution day and the rest of the story is told in flashbacks. It makes for a very gripping story about living in Germany during World War II. The book is based partially off of true events as one boy gets sucked in, and then tries to rebel against the propaganda of the Hitler youth movement. He gets his friends to listen to an illegal short wave radio and secretly distributes newsletters to let people know what’s really going on in the war (which he learns from the radio). The fact that you know he gets caught only adds to the very realistic danger of that time, and the courage it takes to do what’s right.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 202 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

READING LEVEL
Lexile: 760

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780439680134
0439680131

SUBJECTS
Hübener, Helmuth, -- 1925-1942 -- Fiction.
Courage -- Fiction.
Anti-Nazi movement -- Fiction.
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.