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Eight true stories of young people in World War II. Included are a French boy who rescued a downed fighter pilot; a young Belgian who distributed an underground newspaper; two children -- one Japanese and the other British -- displaced from their homes; and others on both sides of the struggle.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 7 UpAt first glance, this title appears to be yet another entry in the already crowded field of World War II 50th Anniversary commemorations. However, a closer examination reveals that this compact book contains emotional accounts of the effects of Nazi occupation and the Holocaust on Europe. Pettit's precise, readable prose matches well her unique approach to the subject at hand; i.e., she concentrates on the experiences, hardships, accomplishments, and heroics that took place in the lives of eight courageous children of the Resistance. These children include a 12-year-old Belgian boy who was a courier of secret messages; a 9-year-old German who endured Allied bombing raids, illness, separation, and psychological trauma; 15-year-old Elie Wiesel, who survived the extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau; a Japanese-American girl of seven, who with her family was sent to an internment camp; and a deaf-mute schoolboy who helped rescue and smuggle out of France a downed Royal Air Force pilot. Readers will surely agree with Pettit that "Each is a tale of remarkable courage." Nevertheless, the book has some flaws. There is some fictionalizing of feelings, thoughts, etc.; and in "The Story of Jeanne Wakatsuki," Pettit misquotes F.D.R.'s famous "date which will live in infamy." Nonetheless, it may lead some readers to Milton Meltzer's Never to Forget (HarperCollins, 1976) and R. Miller's Resistance (Time-Life, 1976; o.p.).David A. Lindsey, Lakewood High and Middle School Libraries, WA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Pettit (A Place to Hide: True Stories of Holocaust Rescues) falls short of the mark with profiles of eight children whose lives were altered by WWII. In her introduction, she writes that children "waged their own battles against the forces of evil," then refers to Resistance couriers, teens who blew up bridges or smuggled food. Of her eight subjects, however, only two were actively engaged in struggles of this sort, and Pettit does not enlarge upon her definition of "wartime resistance." Describing a Jewish girl in Poland who survived in hiding, a British boy sent to safety in the U.S. and a Japanese American banished with her family to an internment camp, the author emphasizes their ordeals more than their responses. She does not help readers understand how, for example, a Scottish teen who kept a wartime diary or a German refugee rendered mute after the horrific bombing of Dresden can be thought of as "fighting back." Although she assembles an admirable range of subjects, she fails to link them in a way that drives home her theme. Ages 10-14. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
The World War II experiences of eight children from as many locales link brief narratives of varying intensity and quality with a broad interpretation of 'resistance.' Subjects include a Japanese internee in the United States, a British refugee from the Blitz, a Belgian distributor of an underground newspaper, and a French boy who rescued a downed American pilot. Bib. From HORN BOOK 1996, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Eight true stories of children during WW II, covering a wide range of experiences, from aiding the French resistance to Japanese internment in Manzanar to life in the concentration camps. All but two of the stories deal with survival rather than resistance, making the title a misnomer, but these are riveting tales, accompanied by an extensive bibliography that will pull many readers on to the full stories of these and other children. The order of selections can be jarring, e.g., placing Jean Wakatsuki's story about Manzanar immediately after Elie Wiesel's piece invites unfair comparisons and has the effect of minimizing the Japanese experience (the piece focuses on living conditions, concerns that sound--unfairly--frivolous in light of the horrors of Buchenwald). Nevertheless, this is a fine introduction to the effects of war on ordinary people, often overlooked in books that focus on battles and strategies. (Nonfiction. 10-14)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 5^-8. It seems like a good idea: gather together several memoirs about brave young people during World War II and retell the stories for middle-graders. The eight accounts summarized here include those of Holocaust survivors and children who resisted the Nazis; there's also a summary of Farewell to Manzanar (1973), about a Japanese American child interned in California, and a memoir of a British evacuee who found home and happiness in the U.S. The problem is that, even with the intense drama of the events, the retellings are banal and the writing alternately dull and histrionic. Instead of individual narrative voices, Pettit gives us clicheand oversimplification. Everything before the war seems to be peaceful, graceful, and calm; the locals are "a sturdy, rugged lot" ; little is the favorite prewar description, as opposed to relentless for every enemy attack. Why summarize Wiesel's stark masterpiece Night (1960), which is barely 100 pages long anyway? Yet the connections between the different experiences are important, and the facts about ordinary kids in wartime are so compelling that this can serve as an introductory work, and there's no doubt many readers will go from here to seek out the original memoirs. Hazel Rochman