The Secret Cave

By Claire Huchet Bishop

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945, Historical fiction, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Jews

Description: "Will you hide them here with you?" the man asks. A shiver runs through the class. Ten refugee children are in terrible danger--hunted by the German soldiers. Can the class save these children? What will happen if the Germans find out? Set in occupied France during WWII, and based on the true story of twenty French 5th graders who are asked to hide ten Jewish children.