SuitabookThe boy who dared
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- Reading
- The opening establishes a tense, threatening situation. Consider reading together or pausing after the first scene to check how the reader is finding its mood.
- Themes
- Resistance to Nazi rule: Helmuth distributes anti-Nazi leaflets and aims to bring information about Hitler and the war to Germans. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The opening depicts a young prisoner in a bleak cell and refers to an executioner working that day. The story therefore includes imprisonment and the threat of execution.