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2014.
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Gisèle Duchant guards a secret that could cost her life. Tunnels snake through the hill under her familys medieval château in Normandy. Now, with Hitlers army bearing down, her brother and several friends are hiding in the tunnels, resisting the German occupation of France. Taking in a Jewish friends baby, Gisèle convinces the Nazis that it is her child, ultimately risking everything for the future of the child. When the German officers begin to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 15
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The first and most successful in the Baroness's series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel "has almost reached its first centenary, and it is as vivid and appealing as ever because the plotting is perfect. It is a classic...
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