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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club

Hoose, Phillip

Hardcover

Young Adult Nonfiction

Publisher Price: $20.99

ISBN10: 0374300224
ISBN13: 9780374300227
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Published: May 12 2015
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Awards: Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, Texas Lone Star Reading List

A Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Winner

At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain: the boys' exploits and eventual imprisonment helped spark a full-blown Danish resistance. Interweaving his own narrative with the recollections of Knud himself, The Boys Who Challenged Hitler is National Book Award winner Phillip Hoose's inspiring story of these young war heroes.

This thoroughly-researched and documented book can be worked into multiple aspects of the common core curriculum.

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