Summary: In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people. 202 p., Scholastic Press.
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Eva Perry Mock-Newbery Club 
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I rated it 4.5 because it was a great read but the writing style was confusing. It was hard to tell the memory apart from the present, also the ending was too abrupt and just seemed to stop dead. Overall, a great book that I loved and maybe award winning but just not Newbery quality.
I thought this was a well-written, eye-opening, and moving piece of historical fiction. There are lots of details to make the setting come alive. The characters were all multi-dimensional, like real people, which they should be since they were based on real people, some of whom the author met and interviewed. I thought Ms. Bartoletti did a particularly good job of pacing the parts of the story from the “present” (1942 actually), which were all in italics, and the flashbacks. The sense of drama seemed to rise in both parts of the story at the same rate. I think this is definitely one of the better books this year, but I’m not quite sure if it makes it into my top 6 for the Mock Newbery.
THIS BOOK WAS AWESOMLY AWESOME. but it was soo sad 😦