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| Original Title: | The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club |
| ISBN: | 0374300224 (ISBN13: 9780374300227) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Sibert Medal Nominee (2016), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2017), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2017), Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2015), YALSA Award Nominee for Excellence in Nonfiction (2016) |
Phillip Hoose
Hardcover | Pages: 198 pages Rating: 4.09 | 4236 Users | 847 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club |
| Author | : | Phillip Hoose |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 198 pages |
| Published | : | May 11th 2015 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. History. War. World War II. Biography |
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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 sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain: the boys' exploits and eventual imprisonment helped spark a full-blown Danish resistance. Interweaving his own narrative with the recollections of Knud himself, here is Phillip Hoose's inspiring story of these young war heroes.This thoroughly-researched and documented book can be worked into multiple aspects of the common core curriculum.
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Ratings: 4.09 From 4236 Users | 847 ReviewsJudgment Regarding Books The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
E ARC from Netgalley.comIn this wonderful piece of narrative nonfiction, Hoose brings us the experience of Knud Pedersen in his own words. As a Dane, the teenaged Pedersen was perturbed that his government had caved so easily to the Nazis demands, agreeing to cooperate with the Nazi soldiers in exchange for relative safety. While Norway was fighting the Nazis, it took a while before opposition to the Nazis took hold in Denmark, and that opposition was started by a group of teenagers headed byWhile not one of the best-written narrative nonfiction stories, I found myself enjoying the story of Hoose and Pedersen's meetings and conversations more engaging than Hoose's 'storytelling' of the Churchill Boys themselves. Pedersen was one of the last surviving members of the group and Hoose took advantage of a failed attempt to publish the story by another author, to spend over a week with him to get his story. Don't get me wrong, it's fascinating. A group of private school youth/young boys
This book was AMAZING i could not put it down! Knud Peterson named the club after the fiery british army were so brave to actually challenge the man who could find you and kill you before you could even run. He was a maniac, plus this was very inspiring
A group of teenage boys in Denmark created the Churchill Club. Their purpose was to sabatoge the Nazis through grafitti, destroying things, and stealing weapons. Most of the boys were eventually caught and sent to jail, but they inspired other Danes to create an underground network to undermine the Germans. The boys were brave and a bit crazy like only teenagers can be. The story is told with lots of quotes from Knud Pedersen, one of the Churchill Club leaders. Its a pretty quick read. I highly
4.25 I am so glad I read this book. So many books about World War II are focused on France or the Holocaust. While those are extremely important topics, and should be be written about, there were many events in other areas of the world whose stories do not get told. It was very interesting to read a young adult book about the conflict in Scandinavia and more specifically Denmark. It was amazing to hear the bravery that these Danes showed under German occupation, but it is even more impressive
Clean. I don't think I can give this a fair review. I had a difficult time with the boys' rebellion against the Nazis using acts of destruction. Why? It was the Nazis! Wouldn't I want them to fail abysmally? Yes! Wouldn't I have ruined their efforts if I had the chance? I would like to think I would have. Still, there was something in the attitude of Knud Petersen, the main historical figure interviewed for this book, that soured me. Was it that he and his friends seemed to be doing these things
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