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A time to fight back : true stories of wartime resistance / Jayne Pettit.
LIBRA D810.C4 P47 1996
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pettit, Jayne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horne, Alistair--Juvenile literature.
- Horne, Alistair.
- Poewe, Karla O--Juvenile literature.
- Poewe, Karla O.
- Tec, Nechama--Juvenile literature.
- Tec, Nechama.
- Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016--Juvenile literature.
- Wiesel, Elie.
- Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--Juvenile literature.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Juvenile literature.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives--Juvenile literature.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons--Juvenile literature.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Juvenile literature.
- Refugee children--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Refugee children.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.
- Refugees.
- War--Underground movements.
- Children.
- Prisoners of war.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth (donor)
- Weinberg family (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 163 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1996.
- Summary:
- Eight true stories of young people in World War II. Included are a French boy who rescued a downed fighter pilot; a young Belgian who distributed an underground newspaper; two children -- one Japanese and the other British -- displaced from their homes; and others on both sides of the struggle.
- Contents:
- The secret messenger: The story of Peter Brouet
- The hidden: The story of Nechama Bawnik
- City in flames: The story of Karla Poewe
- Sea watch: The story of Bessie Shea
- Night without end: The story of Elie Wiesel
- A time of shame: The story of Jeanne Wakatsuki
- Escape from the Blitz: The story of Alistair Horne
- The silent rescue: The story of Pierre Labiche.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-163).
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by the Board of Governors of Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth.
- ISBN:
- 9780395765043
- 0395765048
- OCLC:
- 32856292
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