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Phillip M. HooseThe Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2015A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Introduction
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
- Genre: Nonfiction; young adult biography
- Originally Published: 2015
- Reading Level/Interest: Lexile 970L; grades 8-12
- Structure/Length: 18 chapters plus introduction and epilogue; approx. 208 pages; approx. 4 hours, 51 minutes on audio
- Central Concern: This nonfiction biography narrates the experiences of 14-year-old Knud Pedersen, a Danish boy who, with his brother and friends, organizes resistance groups against the German occupation of their country in WWII.
- Potential Sensitivity Issues: Wartime violence; imprisonment and abuse; psychological trauma
Phillip Hoose, Author
- Bio: Born in 1947; raised in Indiana; attended Indiana University and the Yale School of Forestry; lives currently in Maine; writer of books for children and young adults; essayist, musician, songwriter, conservationist; earned the Maine Library Association’s Katahdin Award for lifetime achievement
- Other Works: We Were There, Too!: Young People in US History (2001); The Race to Save the Lord God Bird (2004); Perfect, Once Removed: When Baseball Was All the World to Me (2006); Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (2009)
- Awards: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal (honor; 2016); Boston Globe Horn Book Nonfiction Honor (2016)
CENTRAL THEMES connected and noted throughout this Teaching Unit:
- Justified Disobedience in Wartime
- War and the Loss of Innocence
- The Psychological Power of Resistance
- The Trauma of World War II
