Phillip Hoose
Hardcover | Pages: 198 pages Rating: 4.09 | 4236 Users | 847 Reviews
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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) |
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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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| Title | : | The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club |
| Author | : | Phillip Hoose |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First 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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When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, there was no resistance or fighting from the Danes. Knud Pedersen was fourteen and disgusted that his country did nothing in wake of the takeover. He and his brother met with other boys at their school and formed a resistance unit modeled after the Norwegian resistance and British Royal Air Force (RAF). They began fighting the Germans by switching up German signs confusing arriving soldiers with misdirections. With their bikes as their weapons, theyOn April 9, 1940, German military forces invaded Denmark and informed the citizens that they had become a protectorate of Germany. Middle school student Knud Pedersen was ashamed and embarrassed that his fellow Danish citizens did not resist German occupation, unlike the brave Norwegians who fought back. After a few months of witnessing the Germans completely take over his city of Odense, Knud and his brother Jens decided to take action. Together, with their cousin and two friends, they called
Very interesting book about Denmark during WWII. I had no idea that Hitler basically told the leaders, in Denmark, to do as he asked or he would bomb them until they did. This book is about a group of teenage boys who did not like that their country was not willing to fight Hitler, so they took matters into their own hands and staged their own sabotage missions.
Continuing on my nonfiction kick...I really, really enjoyed this one. These boys in Denmark started the first resistance group during WWII while they were occupied by the Nazis. They were just BOYS! It was amazing to read about their courage and determination. I am sure had I been in that same situation I would have just curled up into a ball in my room and tried to will the Nazis away with my mind. I think that is about as courageous as I would have been. These boys were amazing.
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 by
I can't say if it's mainly a keen eye for selecting stories that have powerful emotional potential, an ability to distill timeless wisdom from the basic facts of history, or his own transcendent talent for dynamically and sensitively recounting historical events so they feel relevant to young readers, but Phillip Hoose is one of the best nonfiction writers whose work I've encountered. When widespread recognition came his way in 2010 after being awarded a Newbery Honor for Claudette Colvin:
Originally posted at Log Cabin LibraryDuring WWII, Denmark became very valuable to the Germans, they were a buffer to other countries, and they had the materials and easy transport routes that Germany needed for the war. Denmark had decided that rather than fight and lose so many people like Norway had during their resistance, they would allow Germany to occupy them or become a "protectorate." This didn't sit well with Knud Pedersen and his brother Jans. They were very upset with Denmark for
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