The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

 

Available on Amazon

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Genre - Children's European Biographies, Children's Holocaust Fiction Books, Children's European Historical Fiction
Format - Paperback
Length - 208 pages


*Amazon Blurb*

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.

*My Review* 

 

I needed to quick read so I grabbed this book and I am so glad that I did. I am always amazed at the awful treatment that people went thru during the Holocust. Not only the treatment that so many received, but how some of them were able to deal with what was going on around them.

Unlike most books, this one isn't about a Jewish child, but actually a German on who was appalled by the lies spread throughout and found a way to tell the truth. 

Children back then were so mature for their age. They missed out on so much of their childhood having to grow up fast to help take care of their families.