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197 pp.
| Scholastic |
September, 2016 |
TradeISBN 978-0-545-85095-7$16.99
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4-6
Tour de France–loving Marcel, twelve, uses his cycling skills in his small French town to help his baker parents, members of the French Resistance. His new friend Delphine and her Jewish family also need his help escaping the Nazis. Although plot points are occasionally too neatly resolved, Marcel's courageous spirit carries this World War II drama set in 1942. Reading list, timeline. Glos.