Black Radishes
General Audience:
Juvenile
Genre:
Call Number:
J Fiction/MEY
Features:
Medium, small type, not much white space.
Cover Notes :
France at the beginning of wartime, 1940. Nicole, a Catholic resistance girl, helps to smuggle two Jewish boys, Jena-Paul(Gustave?) and Marcel along with their families to America.
Beginning, Middle, & End :
Beginning - It's the beginning of the Nazi occupation and one gets the sense that young Jewish Gustave's life is about to change drastically.
Middle - Eventually, he and his family are smuggled out of Paris as they attempt to escape the Nazis and get to America.
End - Ultimately Gustave and his father make it to London, though his best friend does not.
Pacing :
Medium-fast
Characters :
Gustave, Nicole & Marcel
Setting :
1940s France - integral to plot
Theme :
Jews escaping from Nazi occupation in France
Focus :
Character based, but the plot is important
Read-a-Likes :
A long walk to water - Linda Sue Park
Shooting Kabul - N.H. Senzai
Hook :
A young French boy bravely attempts to escape Nazis in WWII France
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