It’s morning. Soft gray light slips over the
tall red brick wall. It stretches across the exercise yard and reaches through
the high-barred windows. In a cell on the ground floor, the light shifts dark
shapes into a small stool, a scrawny table, and a bed made of wooden boards
with no mattress or blanket. On that bed, a thin, huddled figure, Helmuth, a
boy of seventeen, lies awake. Shivering. Trembling.
It’s a Tuesday.
The executioner works on Tuesday.
Review by Rose Thornton:
The Boy
Who Dared is a work of historical fiction based on the true life of a
German teenage boy, Helmuth Hubener, and his courage to stand up against Nazi
evils during WWII. For this, Helmuth was executed by the Germans for treason at
the age of seventeen. Bartoletti is a good writer, but I did not care for the
format she used with switching back and forth from previous time to the present
time setting of the book. She did include interesting information at the end of
the book about Helmuth, his family, and friends, and also several touching
photos and a timeline for the Third Reich. Bartoletti also gave a good
explanation to readers of what a work historical fiction is at the back of the
book. I enjoyed this story of a young war hero, a youth not in a military
force, but one who believed in the pen being mightier than the sword.
Thanks
for visiting, Rose, Julie, Donna, & Rochelle
Length:
192 Pages
Prices:
Print:
$12.59
Digital:
$N/A
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