Text copyright © 2008 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.

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Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

The boy who dared / by Susan Campbell Bartoletti. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: In October 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.

1. Hübener, Helmuth, 1925–1942 — Juvenile fiction. [1. Hübener, Helmuth, 1925–1942 — Fiction. 2. Courage — Fiction. 3. Anti-Nazi movement — Fiction. 4. Germany — History — 1933–1945 — Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.B2844Boy 2008

[Fic] — dc22      2007014166

First edition, February 2008

Book and cover design by Phil Falco

e-ISBN 978-1-338-21431-4

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