The Boy Who Dared -- Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Paperback

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.

Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 12/26/2018
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.20w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780439680141
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.9
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 121004 / Boy Who Dared

About the Author
Susan Campbell Bartoletti is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of many fiction and nonfiction books for children. Her fiction includes the novels The Boy Who Dared, Dear America: A Coal Miner's Bride, and No Man's Land, as well as a number of picture books. She won the Newbery Honor for her nonfiction book Hitler Youth. A former eighth-grade teacher for 18 years, Bartoletti now writes full-time and lives in Pennsylvania with her family.