"I've come on orders from Berlin to fetch the three children." --Gestapo agent, August 24, 1944
With those chilling words Christa von Hofacker and her younger siblings found themselves ensnared in a web of family punishment designed to please one man--Adolf Hitler. The furious dictator sought merciless revenge against not only Christa's father and the other Germans who had just tried to overthrow his government. He wanted to torment their relatives, too, regardless of age or stature. All of them. Including every last child. Praise for Ann Bausum's The March Against Fear "An exceptionally well-written and -researched chronicle of a crucial civil rights turning point."--Kirkus, starred review "This exemplary look into civil rights history concludes with perspective and encouragement regarding ongoing struggles for social change."--Publishers Weekly, starred review "A must-have volume." --School Library Journal, starred review

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: National Geographic Kids
Published: 01/12/2021
ISBN: 9781426338540
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.50w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Booklist 12/01/2020 pg. 37
Publishers Weekly 12/07/2020
School Library Journal 01/01/2021 pg. 88
Shelf Awareness 01/22/2021

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 514827 / Ensnared in the Wolf's Lair: Inside the 1944 Plot to Kill Hitler and the Ghost Children of His Reven
Reading Level: 8.1 / Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus / Point Value: 4