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Name: The Boy Who Dared
Author: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
ISBN: [978-0-439-68014-1,0-439-68014-X]

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The Boy Who Dared

Author: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

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Follett Number: 1355TR9
Audience: Middle School
Publisher: Scholastic Inc., 2019
Format: 201 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-439-68014-1
ISBN-10: 0-439-68014-X
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

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Anti-Nazi Movement Fiction

Courage Fiction

Germany History 1933-1945 Fiction

Historical Fiction

Hubener, Helmuth, 1925-1942 Fiction

"A novel based on the true story of a Hitler Youth"--Front cover.;Includes bibliographical references (page 198-201). In October 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hubener, 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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A powerful and gripping novel about a youth in Nazi Germany who dares to the truth about Hitler, written by a Newbery Honor Book author. Susan Campbell Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, Hitler Youth, and fleshed it out into a thought-provoking nonfiction novel. When 16-year-old Helmut Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people. But when he tries to expose the truth with leaflets, he's tried for treason. Sentenced to death and waiting in a jail cell, Helmut's story emerges in a series of flashbacks that show his growth from a naive child caught up in the patriotism of the times, to a sensitive and mature young man who thinks for himself.

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