- World War, 1939-1945, Teenage fiction, Friendship, Fiction
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.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Bette Greene, Bette Greene
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 230
- Publisher
- Hamilton, Perfection Learning Prebound, Speak
- Editions
- 45
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780553540505
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“WHEN I SAW the crowd gathering at the train station, I worried what President Roosevelt would think.”
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