Name: Genevieve's war
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Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
ISBN: 9780823441785

Type

Physical Book

Author

Patricia Reilly Giff

Publisher

Holiday House Inc

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780823441785

Synopsis "Genevieve's war "

In this companion to the Newbery Honor-winning Lily's Crossing, thirteen-year-old Genevieve risks everything to defy the Nazis and join the French Resistance.It's not always thinking of being happy. Doing the right thing will make you happy.Despite the farm-work and her irritable grandmother Memé, Genevieve thinks she may have found a new home in Alsace, France, where she spent the summer of 1939. Without much to return to in New York, Gen is ready to see if this new life will make her happy.But then World War II erupts. The Nazis conquer France. Now everyone in Alsace must speak German, act German, and think German--or else. Even worse, a cold Nazi officer has commandeered a room in Memé's farmhouse--and he can tell that Gen and her grandmother aren't loyal to the Reich.But Gen won't be cowed. And when her friend Rémy commits an act of sabotage, she hides him in the last place the Germans will look--in the attic, right above the Nazi's head.

Patricia Reilly Giff

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Patricia Jeanne Reilly Giff (Brooklyn, 26 de abril de 1935 – † 22 de junio de 2021) fue una destacada escritora y educadora infantil estadounidense. Egresada con B.A. en Marymount Manhattan College, obtuvo luego un M.A. en St. John’s University y un Diploma Profesional en Lectura, así como un Doctorado Honoris Causa en Letras Humanas por Hofstra University. Durante unos veinte años se desempeñó como maestra en escuelas públicas, experiencia que influyó profundamente en sus libros para jóvenes lectores.

Giff escribió más de cien libros y es especialmente conocida por sus series Kids of the Polk Street School, Polka Dot Private Eye y novelas como Lily’s Crossing, Pictures of Hollis Woods, Nory Ryan’s Song o All the Way Home. Su obra recibió varios reconocimientos importantes: Lily’s Crossing y Pictures of Hollis Woods obtuvieron el Newbery Honor, Nory Ryan’s Song fue nombrado ALA Best Book for Young Adults, y otros de sus textos han sido galardonados o elogiados por asociaciones literarias y educacionales.

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