**A Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Winner.
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A true YA account of seven Danish teens who dared to fight the Nazi
war machine, from a National Book Award- and Newbery Honor-winning
author.
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, The Boys Who Challenged Hitler
is National Book Award winner 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.