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Available
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Puffin (1997), Paperback, 176 pages
Description
A gripping historical adventure by a much-loved and award winning author. Soon to be a major motion picture, starring Stranger Things' Noah Schnapp. It is World War II and Jo stumbles on a dangerous secret: Jewish children are being smuggled away from the Nazis, close to his mountain village in Spain. Now, German soldiers have been stationed at the border. Jo must get word to his friends that the children are trapped. The slightest mistake could cost them their lives.
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Awards
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee — 1994)
Sydney Taylor Book Award (Mass Import -- Pending Differentiation)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 1992)
NCTE Adventuring with Books: A Booklist for Pre-K—Grade 6 (10th Edition: 1988-1992)
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LibraryThing member RefPenny
Jo lives in a small French village during the Second World War. After a close encounter with a bear while he is tending the sheep he discovers that the Jewish son-in-law of one of the villagers is smuggling Jewish children over the border to Spain. this is an exciting story with realistic
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characters that will help give children some idea of what things were like during the war. Show Less
LibraryThing member RebeccaClareSmith
I read this in Year 5 and, whilst I don't remember all of it, I do remember that I thought it very sad and that, as a nine/ten year old, I was touched by the story.
ISBN
0140384316 / 9780140384314