Summer of My German Soldier Contributor(s): Greene, Bette (Author) |
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ISBN: 014130636X ISBN-13: 9780141306360 Publisher: Puffin Books OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: September 1999 Annotation: This 1973 National Book Award finalist tells of a 12-year-old girl who befriends a Nazi soldier, who is imprisoned in a World War II camp in her small hometown in Arkansas. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Adolescence & Coming Of Age - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 00266687 |
Lexile Measure: 800 |
Series: Young Puffin |
Physical Information: 0.57" H x 4.42" W x 7.26" (0.36 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Theometrics - Secular - Chronological Period - 1940's - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Ethnic Orientation - German - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Geographic Orientation - Arkansas - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Topical - Friendship |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 391 Reading Level: 5.2 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 9.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: An emotional, thought-provoking book from multi-award-winning author Bette Greene. When her small hometown in Arkansas becomes the site of a camp housing German prisoners during World War II, 12-year-old Patty Bergen learns what it means to open her heart. Although she's Jewish, she begins to see a prison escapee, Anton, not as a Nazi--but as a lonely, frightened young man with feelings not unlike her own, who understands and appreciates her in a way her parents never will. And Patty is willing to risk losing family, friends--even her freedom--for what has quickly become the most important part of her life. Thoughtful, moving, and hard-hitting, Summer of My German Soldier has become a modern classic. An exceptionally fine novel. --The New York Times Courageous and compelling --Publishers Weekly A National Book Award Finalist An ALA Notable Book A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year |