Newbery Honor winner Audrey Couloumbis (“Getting Near to Baby”) and her husband, Akila, deliver this gripping novel based on Akila’s boyhood experiences during World War II, after the Germans invaded Greece. What were once just boys’ games soon become matters of life and death for 12-year-old Petros and his older brother, Zola.
- ISBN: 9780375856280
- Authors: Couloumbis, Akila; Couloumbis, Audrey
- Published: 2009 , Random House Books for Young Readers
- Themes: brother, cousin, Germany, Holocaust, Nazi, Occupation, Resistance, underground movement, War, World War II
- Descriptors: Greece, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Young Adult (ages 14-18)
- No. of pages: 240