The Boy Who Dared

Susan Campbell Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, Hitler Youth, and fleshed it out into a thought-provoking nonfiction novel. When 16-year-old Helmut Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people. But when he tries to expose the truth with leaflets, he's tried for treason. Sentenced to death and waiting in a jail cell, Helmut's story emerges in a series of flashbacks that show his growth from a naive child caught up in the patriotism of the times, to a sensitive and mature young man who thinks for himself.

• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
• Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Scholastic Focus)
• Daniel's Story
• Prisoner B-3087
• The Red Bandanna (Young Readers Adaptation)
• Making Bombs for Hitler
• The Boy Who Dared - Student Packet by Novel Units
• The Giver (Giver Quartet)
• The House of the Scorpion
• Milkweed (Random House Reader's Circle)