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Quill Tree Books (2021), 40 pages
Description
"Gino Bartali pedaled across Italy for years, winning one cycling race after another, including the 1938 Tour de France. Gino became an international sports hero! But the next year, World War II began, and it changed everything. Soldiers marched into Italy. Tanks rolled down the cobbled streets of Florence. And powerful leaders declared that Jewish people should be arrested. To the entire world, Gino Bartali was merely a champion cyclist. But Gino's greatest achievement was something he never told a soul--that he secretly worked with the Italian resistance to save hundreds of Jewish men, women, and children, and others, from certain death, using the one thing no authority would question: his bicycle."--Provided by publisher.
Awards
Texas Bluebonnet Award (Nominee — 2023)
Triple Crown Awards (Nominee — 2023)
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 2024)
National Jewish Book Award (Finalist — Children's Picture Book — 2021)
California Young Reader Medal (Nominee — 2024)
Rhode Island Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2023)
Charlotte Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2023)
Great Kids Can Read Award (Nominee — 2024)
CYBILS Awards (Winner — 2021)
New York Public Library Best Books: For Kids (Nonfiction — 2021)
Picture This Recommendation List (Nonfiction — 2022)
Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List (Grades 3-5 — 2022)
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LibraryThing member melodyreads
Another great, unknown until now, story.
Italian biker played an important role in smuggling Jews out of Italy (WWII).
80% of Italy's Jews survived the war
Italian biker played an important role in smuggling Jews out of Italy (WWII).
80% of Italy's Jews survived the war
ISBN
0062908111 / 9780062908117