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A Time to be Brave

by Joan Betty Stuchner

Illustrator: Cynthia Nugent

Ages: 6+

Published: 2014

Publisher: Stepping Stone/Random House

ISBN: 978-0-385-39205-1

Keywords: Denmark, World War II, Jews

In 1943 Nazi-occupied Denmark, ten-year-old David helps the resistance and then flees persecution by the Germans. Dramatic line drawings.