Showing posts with label Resistance fighters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Resistance fighters. Show all posts
Saturday, March 21, 2026

The Lions' Run by Sara Pennypacker illustrated by Jon Klassen

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Compassionate and complex. Kirkus Star review Occupied France, 1944. Lucas Dubois lives in an abbey orphanage. There are rule and constraint...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

The Night War by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

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Miri is Jewish. She has been living in Germany with her mother and father but then Kristallnacht happens in 1938 and so the family flee to P...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

One Day by Michael Rosen illustrated by Benjamin Phillips

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"A true story of courage and survival in the holocaust" Begin here where Michael Rosen talks about his book . Michael Rosen was c...
Friday, December 20, 2024

All the Beautiful Things by Katrina Nannestad illustrated by Martina Heiduczek

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"It feels like all the beautiful things have to be hidden away ... " "The world is a jigsaw puzzle, every person a unique pie...
Friday, July 14, 2023

Hero on a Bicycle by Shirley Hughes

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The setting for this book is Italy in 1944. Florence is occupied by the German army but the Italian resistance movement are hard at work res...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Letters from the lighthouse by Emma Carroll

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Following on from books such as Goodnight Mister Tom, Carrie's War, Vinnie's War and The War that saved my life we now have Lett...
Friday, June 22, 2018

What about me? by Gertie Evenhuis

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Years ago I found What about me? in my school library.  This is an obscure little book which I first read in about 1997 but somehow the...