Susan Campbell Bartoletti

     The Boy Who Dared is 1 of Susan Campbell Bartoletti awesome books she made. The Boy Who Dared is about a boy named Helmuth who tortured by society when he is being pressured to hate Jews. Helmuth is later killed because he was listening to a radio station that was ruined and the people that were talking were Jews.

     Susan was born on November 18, 1958. She was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania . 2 months after she was born, her father had sadly passed away in a car accident. Her mother later got remarried when Susan finished kindergarten. She attended Marywood College and Binghamton University. After that she became a teacher. She stayed in that career for eighteen straight years.

     When Susan was younger, she wanted to be an artist when she got older. She said she had no idea that she was going to be in the writing business. For one of her books, she won a Golden Kiter award for nonfiction. She won the Jane Addams book for Children books. She also won the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for another nonfiction book. Two other books that she had wrote were Black Potatoes, and Kids On Strike.

    The name of my book was The Boy Who Dared. The author is Susan Campbell Bartoletti. Susan has created many other books about Hitler and how life was back then.
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The Boy Who Dared

     The book,  The Boy who Dared, was a really good book, this was one of the books that I would not want to put down. The memorable part was when the author gave flash forwards to hook the reader throughout the story.  One flashback was, "Noon. The small window in the cell door slides open again. A bowl of watery cabbage soup is shoved through. the soup is possible to eat if he doesn't  stop to smell it, doesn't stop to think about is grandmother's soup, her thick beef-and-barley soup, and the crusty bread bread to sop up the hearty broth. He longs for a letter. He'd surely trade soup for a letter. He misses his family terribly, so terribly he aches. He knows he has caused them much sorrow, much hardship, Especially Gerhad, That he regrets, and only that. He gulps the thin soup." This flash forward means that he is in a dark cell. I predict he has been in their for a long time because it says he misses his family so very much. The author Susan Campbell Bartoletti did a really good job with these flash forwards, and the book in general.

Why Helmuth, is Helmuth

   Once Helmuth knew that that Hitler got elected, he knew Germany was in trouble. He never agreed with Hitler. You could say he was anti-hitler. He wanted to stop Hitler from what he was doing.  He didn't believe that they should kick out or kill anymore jews. "Germans! Don't buy from Jews!"(pg.31).  This means that Germans don't like the Jews at all. This is what gets Helmuth furious with Hitler.

My Last words

Dear Hans,

     I will not see you. I will be gone for forever. I was sentenced to death for listening to foreign radio. This is the last pen I will ever pick up. I will be executed on October 27, 1942. I am sorry. Remember I didn't die in vain, this was for all of Germany. I would rather speak the truth and die, than lie and be a coward. I want you to tell Mutti, Gerhad, Rudi, Guddat, and Karl that I love them. Id rather die than live in that concentration camp. I will see you all in heaven. Tell my story. Quote me here, "Germany is like being tortured by the devil."'



                           Yours Truly,

                            Helmuth

The Boy Who Dared

   In  The Boy who Dared, the author Susan Campbell Bartoletti captures my attention by putting a flash forward in the beginning. She opens a little window of curiosity in my mind. The one sentence that grabbed my attention was, "The executioner works on Tuesday." (pg.3). This quote means that he might have been sentenced to death or he is in the death row. Also after this quote it says, "Helmuth is three." (pg.4). I inferred that the my first quote was giving me a sneak peak of what was going to happen to him in the end of the book.