DBTRC NOVEL LISTS

We have a great selection of fiction books for your classroom arranged by grade, reading levels and subject. To make an order - contact us at the Derry Byrne Centre.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Hero

The DBTRC has sixty copies of this book.


LOCATION: Convent Glen


ATTERNA, MARTHA

HERO

Els is a courier, a girl who takes Jewish children on the back of her bike to safety on farms in Friesland. When she leaves Isaak, disguised as Jan, at a farmhouse with kind people, he is miserable until he makes friends with a beautiful black horse, Hero, a Frisian wanted by the Germans. The first time the Germans come for the horse, Isaak comes up with a plan to save him, but the second time they come, Isaak can do nothing to protect the animal he loves.

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