num_pages: 202
description: When 16-year-old Helmuth Hbener listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio he quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people. But when he tries to expose the truth with leaflets he's tried for treason. Sentenced to death and waiting in a jail cell Helmuth's story emerges in a series of flashbacks that show his growth from a naive child caught up in the patriotism of the times to a sensitive and mature young man who thinks for himself.A youth in Nazi Germany tells the truth about Hitler.Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book Hitler Youth and fleshed it out into a full novel.
language: English
title: The Boy Who Dared
publisher: Scholastic Press