The Tin Snail
By: Cameron McAllister ; illustrated by Sam Usher
Contributors: Usher, Sam, illustrator
Edition: First American edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780553536386; 9780553536409
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; Fathers and sons; Design and construction; Automobiles; Italians; Underground movements; World War, 1939-1945; Fiction; History
Description: "A thirteen-year-old French boy tries to save his father's job by inventing a special kind of car, but it isn't easy--especially when the Nazis are planning to steal his design"--
Notes: "Originally published ... by Random House Children's Publishers UK, London, in 2014."

Based on the true story of the Citroen 2CV car.