Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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.

This is a fictionalized biography based on Helmuth Huber, told in first person from a teenage boy's point of view. Powerful reading about the power of evil and how hard it was to try to do something about it. Another book that would be a good classroom novel!

Rating: 8.5 of 10.

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