The Boy Who Dared

Awards and Praise for The Boy Who Dared: A YALSA Best Book for Young AdultsA Booklist Best Book for Young AdultsA Booklist Editors’ ChoiceA 2009 Notable Book for a Global SocietyAn NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People* “The teen’s perspective makes this a particularly gripping way to personalize the history, and even those unfamiliar with the background… will be enthralled by the story of one boy’s heroic resistance in the worst of times… This is an important title for the Holocaust curriculum.” – Booklist, starred review”[An] inspiring tale of conscience and courage.” – Kirkus Reviews“Bartoletti offers another perspective on the Holocaust, demonstrating that even if the effort proves unsuccessful, the courage and convictions of a minority should be motivation to speak the truth rather than remain silent. It’s a message that must be continually emphasized as a lasting legacy of the Holocaust.” – School Library Journal“A stirring tale of one young man’s resistance to a government he came to regard as evil… The character development, based on research and interviews with those who knew Helmuth, is solid, and the author excels in creating a sense of immediacy in the setting. Her Nazi Germany is a place that is hauntingly familiar, enveloped in a government-fed sense of fear in this welcome addition to a body of literature begun with Anne Frank’s diary.” – VOYA “Bartoletti accomplishes the seemingly impossible task of building dramatic tension in a story whose outcome we know from page one. Helmuth’s questioning voice lives on in the pages of this compelling work.” – Cooperative Children’s Book Center, recommended

Susan Campbell Bartoletti is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of many fiction and nonfiction books for children. Her fiction includes the novels The Boy Who Dared, Dear America: A Coal Miner’s Bride, and No Man’s Land, as well as a number of picture books. She won the Newbery Honor for her nonfiction book Hitler Youth. A former eighth-grade teacher for 18 years, Bartoletti now writes full-time and lives in Pennsylvania with her family.

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