Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
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(Paperback - Reissue)
- Age Range: Young Adult
- Pub. Date: September 1999
- 208pp
- Sales Rank: 13,175
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: September 1999
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
- Format: Paperback, 208pp
- Sales Rank: 13,175
- Age Range: Young Adult
- Series: Young Puffin Series
- ISBN-13: 9780141306360
- ISBN: 014130636X
- Edition Description: Reissue
Synopsis
Minutes before the train pulled into the station in Jenkinsville, Arkansas, Patty Bergen knew something exciting was going to happen. But she never could have imagined that her summer would be so memorable. German prisoners of war have arrived to make their new home in the prison camp in Jenkinsville. To the rest of her town, these prisoners are only Nazis. But to Patty, a young Jewish girl with a turbulent home life, one boy in particular becomes an unlikely friend. Anton relates to Patty in ways that her mother and father never can. But when their forbidden relationship is discovered, will Patty risk her family and town for the understanding and love of one boy?
Author Biography: Bette Greene lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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When German prisoners of war are brought to her Arkansas town during World War II, twelve-year-old Patty, a Jewish girl, befriends one of them and must deal with the consequences of that friendship.
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most interesting book about the subjectby rubydiamond
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June 11, 2009: This book tells you about a girl who befriends a german soldier.(who are despised for their role in the holocaust).It sort of teaches the lesson to not judge someone before getting to know them. Only reason i didn't give it a five star rating was because i didn't like the ending.
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June 08, 2009: Summer of My German Soldier, a novel by Bette Greene, is a rather instinctive yet heart-warming tale about two banned lovers, a Romeo and Juliet of the twentieth century. This novel has a theme connecting to race and ethnicity, and shows that your label, whether it is Jewish or Nazi, does not determine the kind of person you are. The author used irony in the text because the book is about a Jewish girl loving a Nazi POW and her African-American nanny during World War two. This situation was very rare and ironic in the 1940s time period. I would recommend this book to people that value and respect ethnicity and diversity because this book because this book is about differences and ethnicity.
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