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534 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country's most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene's world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers. The Nazis track down Aubrion's team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway public opinion against the Allies, or be killed. Faced with no decision at all, Aubrion has a brilliant idea. While pretending to do the Nazis' bidding, they will instead publish a fake edition of Le Soir that pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin, daring to laugh in the face of their oppressors. The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke, and they have only eighteen days to tell it." -- From publisher's description. |
| Subject(S) |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belgium -- Brussels -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground literature -- Belgium -- Brussels -- Fiction.
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Newspapers -- Fiction.
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Street children -- Fiction.
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Journalists -- Fiction.
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Brussels (Belgium) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780778309253 (paperback) |
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9780778308157 (hardcover) |
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