The orphans of Normandy : a true story of World War II told through drawings by children /
Amis, Nancy,
The orphans of Normandy : a true story of World War II told through drawings by children / Nancy Amis. - first edition. - New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, (c)2003. - 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 29 cm.
Relates how 100 young schoolgirls, many of them orphans, and their teachers managed to escape the chaos of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, l944, by taking shelter in an iron mine for thirty-eight days and, after being forced out by the Germans, walking for twenty-nine days to reach safety behind Allied lines.
2002027816
Orphans--History--France--Normandy--20th century--Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy--Juvenile literature.
Orphans--Juvenile literature.
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.--Juvenile literature.
D810 / .O774 2003 D810
The orphans of Normandy : a true story of World War II told through drawings by children / Nancy Amis. - first edition. - New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, (c)2003. - 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 29 cm.
Relates how 100 young schoolgirls, many of them orphans, and their teachers managed to escape the chaos of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, l944, by taking shelter in an iron mine for thirty-eight days and, after being forced out by the Germans, walking for twenty-nine days to reach safety behind Allied lines.
2002027816
Orphans--History--France--Normandy--20th century--Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy--Juvenile literature.
Orphans--Juvenile literature.
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.--Juvenile literature.
D810 / .O774 2003 D810