How huge the night

By Heather Munn

Subjects: France, Prejudices, Coming of age, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Fiction, Bildungsromans, Conduct of life, Juvenile fiction, History, Schools

Description: In 1940, fifteen-year-old Julien Losier moves with his family from Paris to a small rural town in France to live with his grandfather, where he becomes involved in matters of life and death when they house a Jewish boy whose parents have sent him to the country to be safe, and they then try to provide safety to two more refugees.