A review by readoodles
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose

5.0

History, adventure, first person accounts, engaging informational text. Let a little child lead them... the Danish Resistance during WWII didn't get started until these teenagers stepped up and started harassing the German occupying troops. The teens exhibited great courage and typical teenage spontaneity guided their actions. Looking forward to book talking this title.

BOOKTALK: Knud Pedersen was ashamed of his home country of Denmark. When the German's moved in, no one, not the government, not the military, not the citizens resisted. Angry, Knud joined with his brother and some classmates to take action against the Nazis. Together they sabotaged vehicles, stole weapons, burned buildings and left a graffiti symbol on their work. Infuriated the Germans insisted that the Danes fine the perpetrators and punish them. But this did not stop the boys. A true adventure story told through the eyes of Knud,