The Summer of My German Soldier

By Bette Greene Bette Greene

Subjects: Soldiers, fiction, Historical fiction, Conduct of life, History, Jews, Teenage fiction, Self-esteem, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Fiction - people, Self-esteem, Children's stories, Arkansas, fiction, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Prejudices in fiction, World War, 1939-1945 in fiction, Children - fiction & literature, Children's fiction, American Prisoners and prisons, Jews, united states, fiction, Prejudices, fiction, Places & cultures, Germans, Prisoners of war, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Toleration, Friendship, Prejudices, Large type books, Arkansas in fiction, Self-esteem in fiction, Conduct of life, fiction, Self esteem, Conduct of life in fiction, Prisoners of war in fiction, Jews, fiction, Jews in fiction

Description: When her small hometown in Arkansas becomes the site of a camp housing German prisoners during World War II, 12-year-old Patty Bergen learns what it means to open her heart. Although she's Jewish, she begins to see a prison escapee, Anton, not as a Nazi--but as a lonely, frightened young man with feelings not unlike her own, who understands and appreciates her in a way her parents never will. And Patty is willing to risk losing family, friends--even her freedom--for what has quickly become the most important part of her life.