Book - BookDetective

Name: The Boys Who Challenged Hitler

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

Author: Phillip Hoose
Rank:

Rating:

Original Rating:

Pop Rating:

Genres/categories:
History, Non Fiction, War/Military, Biographies

Purchase/reserch links:

Amazon

Goodreads

LibraryThing

ISBNs:
9780374300227
0374300224

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.