Gustave, having been forced to move from Paris to the countryside after his parents decided it was not safe for Jews to live in the city during World War II, meets a Catholic girl named Nicole, whose family is part of the French Resistance, and together they devise a plan to rescue his friend and family members from the Nazi occupied territory.
year: 2010, 2011
call number/section: 1000
subjects: holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), juvenile fiction, jews, paris, jewish children, fiction, paris (france), history, 1940-1944, juvenile fiction, fiction, holocaust, 1939-1945, paris (france), war stories, historical fiction
Editions
Meyer, Susan
Delacorte Press (2010)
Gustave, having been forced to move from Paris to the countryside after his parents decided it was not safe for Jews to live in the city during World War II, meets a Catholic girl named Nicole, whose family is part of the French Resistance, and together they devise a plan to rescue his friend and family members from the Nazi occupied territory.
Schools: 6
Meyer, Susan
Delacorte Press (2011)
Gustave and his family leave Paris in 1940 and move to a small village in Free France when it becomes apparent that Paris is no longer a safe place for Jews. After meeting Nicole, a French Resistance member, he devises a plan to go back to Paris and smuggle his friends and relatives out of German-Occupied France.
Schools: 4