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Hidden
by Loïc Dauvillier
Illustrator: Marc Lizano
Ages: 9+
Published: 2014
Publisher: First Second/Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-1-59643-873-6
Keywords: Graphic format, World War II, Resistance
As a young girl in Paris, Dounia was hidden from the Nazis by neighbors and friends when her parents were sent to concentration camps; she survived to tell the story to her granddaughter in this subtly colored graphic novel.