A whale in Paris
Subtitle: how it happened that Chantal Duprey befriended a whale during the Second World War and helped liberate France
By: Daniel Presley and Claire Polders ; illustrated by Erin McGuire
Contributors: Polders, Claire, 1976- author; McGuire, Erin, illustrator
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781534419155; 9781534419162
Subjects: History; World War, 1939-1945; Whales; Juvenile fiction; Human-animal relationships; Single-parent families; Fiction
Description: During the German occupation of Paris, Chantal, twelve, spies a whale while fishing with her father in the Seine and is determined to return it to the ocean before the Nazis or starving Parisians can destroy it.