Ann Bausum

Ensnared in the Wolf's Lair

Inside the 1944 Plot to Kill Hitler and the Ghost Children of His Revenge

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

I've come on orders from Berlin to fetch the three children. -Gestapo agent, August 24, 1944 With those chilling words Christa von Hofacker and her younger siblings found themselves ensnared in a web of family punishment designed to please one man-Adolf Hitler.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: NATL GEOGRAPHIC SOC
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Altersempfehlung: 10 bis 14 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 165mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 369g
• ISBN-13: 9781426338540
• ISBN-10: 1426338546
• Artikelnr.: 60362009

Autorenporträt

ANN BAUSUM is an award-winning children's book author who brings history alive by connecting readers to personal stories from the past that echo in the present day. The Wolf's Lair is her 11th book for National Geographic Kids and her fourth look at international history. While researching the book, she traveled twice to Europe to get to know the people and places that became intertwined in 1944 after the failed effort to kill Hitler at the Wolf's Lair. Previously Bausum has explored international history with such works as Stubby the War Dog; Denied, Detained, Deported; and Unraveling Freedom. Many of her books highlight themes of social justice, including her National Geographic title The March Against Fear. In 2017, her body of work was honored by the Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC. Individual titles have won numerous starred reviews and been recognized with a Sibert Honor Award, the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, the Carter G. Woodson Award, and the SCBWI Golden Kite Award, among other distinctions.