Marcel is often frightened when he has to go through various checkpoints, where soldiers question his every move. History seamlessly meets fiction as readers learn about a snippet of life in World War II Europe. This story takes readers on a historical adventure as they follow Marcel, astride his trusty bicycle, along the streets of German-occupied France. Marcel must decide if he will help his new friend, even if it means putting his life and the lives of his parents at risk.
The Tour de France has been cancelled for the last two years, and Marcel, a young French boy, must keep two very big secrets: his parents are part of the resistance, and the new girl in town, a friend and fellow bicycle enthusiast, tells him that she is Jewish. Gr 4–6-It is 1942 in German-occupied France.
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