Description Susan Campbell Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, Hitler Youth, and fleshed it out into a thought-provoking nonfiction novel.
A former eighth-grade teacher for 18 years, Bartoletti now writes full-time and lives in Pennsylvania with her family..
She won the Newbery Honor for her nonfiction book Hitler Youth.
Her fiction includes the novels The Boy Who Dared, Dear America: A Coal Miner\'s Bride, and No Man\'s Land, as well as a number of picture books.
About the Author Susan Campbell Bartoletti is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of many fiction and nonfiction books for children.
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.
But when he tries to expose the truth with leaflets, he\'s tried for treason.
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.
Description Susan Campbell Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, Hitler Youth, and fleshed it out into a thought-provoking nonfiction novel
