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

by Phillip Hoose

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374300224
• ISBN13: 9780374300227
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

I like reading stories of real life heroes.

I enjoyed this book and shared it with a 15 year old friend. He is really enjoying it too.