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Author:
Reed, Nancy Amis.
Title:
The orphans of Normandy : a true story of World War II told through drawings by children / Nancy Amis Reed.
Publisher:
Atheneum Books for Young Readers,
Copyright Date:
2001
Description:
1 v. (unpaged): col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945--Children--Normandy--Normandy--Juvenile literature.
Orphans--Normandy--Normandy--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Normandy.--Normandy.--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Normandy.--Normandy.
Orphans
Survival.
Normandy (France)--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.
Summary:
Relates how 100 young schoolgirls, many of them orphans, and their teachers managed to escape the chaos of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, l944, by taking shelter in an iron mine for thirty-eight days and, after being forced out by the Germans, walking for twenty-nine days to reach safety behind Allied lines.
ISBN:
9780689841439 (hc):
0689841434 (hc):
OCLC:
(OCoLC)50294899
LCCN:
2002027816
Locations:
CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)
AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)
OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

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